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i i 16 PAGES TODAY IT CHAiiOTTE AND EVENING CHRONICLE f MEWS ' I IP V A HP CO II a . r t- - x r m rt t? - , ' L I TJ 1 I II IV i v n a KLUi l o a HOME NEWSPAPER" I ' i mS , I NIGHT I - CHABLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1921. SS'SKSKTSfflSSfciB Srg'Stt JPRICE FIVE CENTS nee I OFFICERS SCOU ! COUNTY TO FID I ESCAPING NEGRO Accepts TX J"' Kl search for Adam Miller, At , r of Mrs. J. F. Fin r. r, Si) Far Fruitless. . CITIZENS 10INING IN. I police and Sheriff's Office ;!nd C ounty People Com- bine to Hun Down Negro. i - . . . southeastern section ot I--.;--..;. - county is honeycombed . .t':v'. and citizens Monday scour j i-5 V; : ::m y in search of Adam Mil 4 r.' U!" man who is alleged to I ; re rtir'itnl Mrs. D. F. Finger at her .rT. ' a ti'.e .Matthews road Saturday i Tr.. N-. w was in error Sunday re ? the a -suit to have been commit- ;-d i:; o;- a Mrs. D. F. Delling-?r, the .. '. mi'? about by reason of a I isirterp'.ita'ion of the name trivf-n : t-v pa! ice station over the teie ; in? In '.he excitement of the late r whf-n t'r.e information was av.iila- i a: tile station, the confusion of .re? r"5'-i'.ted. $ wh to.- the escaped -ltiaeker of Hnser has been unrelenting since ; .. h tir Saturday night. During all Sunday, through Sunday night and , r. iay the quest has cen.inned. the i ra-sinc; through the .southeast- ran: of the county where, it is te- ;ve'i the ".t gro is either in hidimr, or ' i:rcu?h which part of Mecklenburg he m .'.tveeded in evading officers and I zir." to some distant oint by this time. " The -is: report heard at the polic-d - -'.anon lax in form of a t?!eihone r.s?as? at two o'clock from Matthews the effect that a negro had been stir i rounded fcur miles below that town I and .asking that officers come to fid f -;t:iT.s forming the posse. Chit: f Orr and a dozen cf his men -per.: all cf Sunlav night in the hunt .-".a did r.r-t come r ack to the c-Uy until ! Monday morning. They were re-, j 'i?vd in th- chase by other officers of ::-.e city and the entire sq'iau and?r j orr.rr.and of Sheriff Cochrane is turned j v?r to the work of apprehanding the. Will To Lc ie World foundation IS it? P of - -x. 19 The year 1926 (o shake the world to on, both physically and It is to be a succession .'.s. famines, flrtfwi ci,: wrecks, rioting and revolution. So ays the British Journal of Astrol ogy, which has drawn the horo scope for that year, when the planets Mars and Mercury will be in conjunction. !iV 5ai? later th sreat anna geddon is to take place. It will be a tlnal conflict between Mohamme danism, allied with Bolshevism. world. It will end in a "universal peace" in 1932, but "there S so few of us left and we shall all be so tired that peace slinnlri I pen anyhow," the horoscope says. Coherence's-. Capital - Ship, Naval Ratio ANTI-IYNCHI BILL ATTACK BY REP. m NG ED ?ELL CONSIDERATION LEGISLATURE I OF ANGLO-IRISH READY FOR THE PACT IS BEGUN FINAL SESSION Lynchings Would Increase Under Federal Control, He Tells the House. IGNORES "RACE RIOTS. Removal of Cause Must Be irst Accomplished to Cause Any Decrease. Washington, Adoption by Dail is Moved by Arthur Griffith and Seconded by McKeon. DE VALERA OPPOSES. Open Debate by Dail Ex pected to Continue Today and Through Tuesday. London.. Dec. 19.-(By The Ano,-,t. ed Press.) The British Pa.rliarr.AT, -.n be prorogued this afternoon until Jan uary 31, it was announnp o,- k Austen Chamberlain. Governmi leader m the House of Common, n'-u.. original understanding was that v gation ahould not occur until the Dail Bneaim had acted on the Anglo-Irish Dec. 19. Lynchins Dublin, Dec 19 ip,. Preso Th. n , the Associated fl-7 , Eireann hn at ses'sLn fl0Ck tWS mo' its public session for consideration of the Anglo- U- y -eat in the " ; Ktn Wilen the speaker. Pro essor J0hn MacXeiH. called the meet mg to order. Arur116 tleaty WaS 1 Da 5 r, '"Tn' 1''reiSn in the Dail Cabmet and signer of the London agreement. 11 r-i commandant .McKeon. i-ongrord, one of the 1 ol county est known of the xvuum oe mcreaspd w mni-m tu Triti, Federal offense, Representative is- la The CrZ? ' Ieaders' SeCOnJ" well. Democrat. Louisiana, told the !e Gl,ffith motion, saying: ioaay m a speech opposing the iXie illsn People want anti-Iynching bill. He said the pro- nt shadows." posal was unconstitutinn.il ix-,,ii t . . 1 v i tut; substance, uneonstitution.il aiouse local antasnnism nnfi-cHmin meeting- be- 1 I f' 1 Ar.ircy. The negro arrested Sat night .i.rriiy after the attack suspect and believed certainly to di-.'.-A (.iUiCLj.. 'JUL KJL ILJ Ceil ly ';n iay morning to a destination which :.- p.:;ce dt-paitment declines to .f.k-- I-nown Raleigh. Salisbury and '-r.r ro were three of the places ':.:, h the nerro is said to have been TO. nee accumulated Sunday that js'M Ardivy was one of the assailants I f Mrs Finger. After being sharply .t-'. and confronted by some of :- own f !iif-nrs about to matter, ;; y 'r,;. th- offifers that his home ; ? "he s:ile of the Seaboard Air Hai'.wa- track, a hundred yards ; .s: -.f 'vhi the Monroe road cross - . .-(ji.onrd track. The officers ar i found a suit of clothes "?(! away under the bed. They '--w thfpe f. rth and found they had 1 ri on them. Other statements : ' I : the negro later, when con 'la blo-jdy clothes, indicated .'th' eiTicr.s that Ardrey is, almost na utu-s-t ;cu. one of the guilty Hp hr. admitted shortly after aurdi)y night that, early in r.ii.s, when he and Adam Miller . 'h-: ? s store at Briar Creek, M:. Finuer was -for a short . that a suggestion was made by r thi- jh-y attack Mrs. Finger t ! v.-.- ;n liack home. He said entertain the suggestion :ih :-''. .Mili . against it, but also ; -.h -t wh-n h- and Miller later s or. and walked up the road, r :!' n'. d the idea again, argu '' " .a n"fT be known. Ardrey ''' 'lie full h-ngth of an ad- " !''! M,e circumstances sur r.h:. z ', ase and the statements va f.Tiu.. ! irn indicate that he is 1.. , . . ..7 uiunuiakr trail j. Ult! lno sP'it winle doing nothine "n r ?.a,sumrai aroe as to whethot- tii . ' ' I I t Ml I 1 i I i f 1 1 I I . , . . .1 . 1 ' - remove the cause, check the crinrm:,! V,umt'nt introduced or prevent mob action." Pvape or attempted rape, the Louis iana Representative declared, was the primary cause of the mob spirit "Remove this cause and other lynch- win tease aiso," he said. Fifty-six per cent of all lynchings in the United it -f Valero tj , ,. "-Min tie vaitra the Republican President it the private meetimr of rt, ! , -,:a nTdJet lnea at the puo - 1 transP"'ed that the doc- n r'LT esUon an alternate Careful Attention Given to Important Bills to Insure Their Validity. WAS BUSY" SESSION. No Interference With Road and Building Programs ; Schools Aided. BY JIXE B, D ARKEN. Staff Correspondent or ews 40 Rt!ri8 Ti DeC- l?--By vote of 43 to 40 the House today voted down the motion made by Crisp of Dare county! o reconsider its action Saturdav he Dunlap 1 ill. providing for an ex tension -of 90 days in which ;d ,nv this year's taxes without the assess ment of penalties. . Thi i , S5.S?," mthe finance committee. The Senate bill changing the rate of speed of au tomobiles from 27, miles to 30 miles in the country, and from 18 to 20 miles in cities, passed its three readings After considerable debate the pro- , 1 -Jur-mre automobile! operating m the State a,Hi' French Pride Responsible For Big Battleship Demand First Crisis of Arms Conference Evaporates as Reasons for the French Request for More Ships Come to Light; National Pride Hurt. W.,irl 1.,.. , n,. , " , em.over on objection of v,lctnam. ot OranfrA onimtv rni. on reading the mu nicipal finance act : and the school deficit bill, both Houses adjourning .this at tern ion and will complete their Work at nignt sessions. K DAVID LAWRENCE staff Correspondent of The Aewg. CopyrlRht, 1911, by Jfem Publishing Co. Washington, Dec. 19. The first "cri sis of the arms conference has slowly evaporated. France is not blocking the parley any longer but is gradually revealing the whv and wherefore of her amazing re quest for an immense battleship pro- a1 i. The national pride of the French na val experts who had been slighted while threat Britain, Japan and the United Mat have for weeks taken unto themselves the regulation of naval '-alios, the desire of the French for more submarines and the natural effort of l-reneh diplomacy to win a more in tluential prosition in the reparations negotiations in London have all been in terwoven in the policy which France l1, " Pursuing here for several days. LOST SLEEP NEEDLESSLY inose who have been taking the policy of isolation on her part wa.3 dangerous. Immediately thereafter the British began having conferences with the Germans about reparation pay ments and it began to look to France as if the British were playing closer to Germany than to France in eco nomic matters. What more natural thing therefore than for Premier Bnand to make a gesture which would indicate to Great Britain that only by French assent could the armament agreement be made. Some compensa tion for French approval had to bj made. The prevailing view is that M Briand instructed his delegates here 1o stir up the naval issue at the very moment when he was about tj nego tiate with Prime Minister LloyJtGeor?" on other questions of far gi oat r im portance to France than the hu-Mmg of ten battleships six years !unce with unds which no French ecmomis-i can possibly locate in the fu.ur;- rev enues of France for generations in French tactics seriously have lost sleeu come Jitutessiy. laik of imperilling the con- HUGHES T4LKS Pf iiviv ference itself has been heard in many AAKS quarters where the French demand has ' , 4 -V' howevei". the American been like a blanket of ice suddenly : J18" delegations have been tvor thrown over an otherwise enthusiastic ! -1 - lv.eyetl up to a tension wbh?Vi is and happy gathering. As the head of aoie in Uiese conferences, thy ma one of the delegations expressed it to-i ?om?r . the delegates hav been irri- Raleigh, Dec. 19. -So far as careful matching- of important bills in their progiyss through both houses of the -Legislature can assure the correctness of everything, the special session will be ready to adjourn on Monday night after the reading of two bills in the Senate after midnight on the legisla tive day ot Tuesday. Committees and individuals watched the progress of boih he municipal finance act and the school tax, validating act in its last passage through both houses and thev are satisfied that everything is all "5'u vwtn ootn tnese bills, St i ; uaj. anngs were going too well". He called attention to the fact that such rapid progress had been made thus far that it was "too good to be -rue and something dramatic had to happen". He was one of the dMAooto p-h-i. tated beyond measure at the French policy. Some harsh things navv been said. One de'egate who has a trans cendent admiration for Mr. l'iug.u-s told this correspondent that hp in.nv veiled !.hat the conference had not brok PrODOSOit nu-.t . by do Valera. ,e,lc""eni ar up 1 ': r i in states in the last 30 years, hp ,;.! , ..peajter -MacNeiil said Mr. .i v,i.. came from ibis ran so and aai,j.'nvi.J nau requested that the , do you propose to do in this bill to re move the cause that provokes lynching, which is fundamental in solving thi question?" ''What is the occasion for this bill at this particular time?" Mr. Aswell demanded. "The outlaw, the thief, the bandit, the murderer is unusually ac tive, but is there a plethora of lync'n inss now that thrpatpn tha and seem to create the necessity for s,tlon . of J-hTe Iives and fortunes of this bill? Not at all." He then read h, lJf?Pie of.. Ireland. .. regarded as confidential g S tor-ward . his. own . proposal in tlie lie session. Arthur Griffith and jfich tel 0lll.ns" Pleated against a course which they declared would result in suchln.gn fIJim ;e Irish People whit such an alternative proposal meant sspeaking to his motion. Mr. Griffith ? thls, was not a Question or the mere rights of thP npnni.- r . ., .. f'-f it ivcia a from the judiciary committee's report T,J?I5eaJ?iner. with ffreat feeling, the Sinn accompanying tne bin to show that, ZZr mister defined the wnn aver States for thp bill to fiVlrmr age lynchings in the United JfS". reach?d with the British the last 30 years was 10S 1 '"Potentsanrs m London. per year, the number in 1920 was only I ,,nceT ?id we demand recogni- 65. which, he said, means a reduc- Ui ? i, lnsh RePublic. knowin it tion in 1920 below the average for 30 JJ been impossible to secure years of 43 lynchings, or a reduction ,,,ile;. in lynchings of 40 per cent. . UI.UU"1 reaa a letter which he . 'vu irom J-remier Lloyd- in T f," 111 negotiations saj tho ,'B. "-". uuipinniem proDosed maVin Ireland co-eaual wiih thp ,,-. t-,5 P Dominions and to secure for Ireland a Piace ,n the League of Nations The lett-r also promised the withdrawal of The reduction. Mr. Aswell said, was accomplished under local control. witnout tne inter-meddling of Federal Government." FIVE CONSTITUTE MOB. "This bill provides," Mr. Aswell said, mat , it you want to lynch a negro, naval and military forces from-Irp.smii send four men not five, because five when ihe agreement wa MfifiJ, a w i ' mu i ui ii in i mo. ou reserve to East St is a as ratifip-! 11. -... . '.11.U. .'1J1 rimth said the oath of alle giance aerrep.1 nr, . TSJorthprn ritio thp ,-io-V.t ,n anv T,it.K ' . , " wnion ' " " " " " - ...... v -, V I d. V Cll I I "-' II lKIIId II the race riots they wish Louis, Chicago. Springfield, and other ran talrc v. i. ,. n !;!.! iC in -'ri'l. " ''.0:.- ! " !-?ri: r,i:-r f'HV HI,KR IMPROVING. i :n'' r who was brought to f' .-t's Hospital for treatment, was v-rv i:iuc!i improved-Monday orr2 s-'V.f- had about recovered r' 'hr hys- rica' condition she was sv ('.r ii'tht and was able to giva -v r (o-vr.iit account of the at ' n iirr. !"i-l one to the Crier store for l.y tho littlp r-Viilrl fit ir. arid t'. '.v)io live in the neigh-i-'ii knows Ardrey and Mil Ardrey living just across from h-r house and Miller i t'rant house on the A. H. r-aee. just across the Mon-Tli- negroes, who were at i i -1 1 slit, was tViprp had j.-.'. -orn lli-pworks of some kind . them as they went i'oa'1, rot a great distance from a 'pT- Slle did not relish the 'ivv . -n? n tnfi niShway, near H.J'tn " Tf'p negroes in the mood ..T)'ar(j t0 bf. in and she mSLde : ;ir,'.' "r soinK back to the store a V.''; !"!1'('huse. Later she hail- 'ipio sK,.' . '"r ;i,-"-omobile occupied by r " clnu tney took: her to s Fir, she went UP the Porch, . ' ' -ites, her dog growled ''t tliat time someoner !"m behind and placed .-i.,lry. --i..fc.ii. ,jiic Liiiiiiva ant's r' . '" 'tweon hr and her nave lasted ten min v.hi:li her clothing was l some of her hair was s:-i, . . , .. " ' 'B"i- -i- a. n fl:;r. lor 'j'i; shone on the. r.rpst ("" her house and, as it ' managed to make the jf ' .fnd she would not oi,! i, hand was taken from !. ,, , t . -"ii" could breath more - iime the car, which ehoked down or stop seemed about oppo- , . ,r''- J mger screamed 'P of her voice and ' vfJ(1 oul of the house and I th" u r?'. out o the CT:, nl:- had Passed on. ' '""'k , ' hf'r way down the the store, another (on,i'"'"i on ratt Two) '" ni.: fry t i-i.-. occur in the South. It is most interest- President de Valera rose to move thp ing that the author of this bill, the rejection of the treaty. ae gentleman irom ftt. jouis. is silent on l am agninst this treaty bccaimr it rate riots. You practically say by this will not end th conflict between Greit bill, let race riots flourish at the will Britain and Ireland," he declared "lam of the local community. If you want against the treaty becau?P T o",,-, to kill negroes, you must kill them in peace, not war." droves, but if five men kil one negro, He argued that the Irish neonlp even for the most heinous of all would never be reconciled to tlV crimes, the five must go to prison for agreement. life, the local law officers must go to Mr. de Valera vigorously denouncer the penitentiary and the innocent cit- the treaty as "subverting " the nublir " izens of the country must be taxed to He paid tribute, however to the d-le benefit the criminal's family, while gates who signed the pact savins the helpless white woman who has suf- what they did "was in their excess of fered agonies ten thousand times worse love for Ireland." than death, receives from this bill not When the Pail adjourned at 1 o'clock a suggestion of help or sympathy. until 3:30 p. m., there was every in "Why not do a fair and nobler thing dication that ihe speech-making would now and be enabled to think better of continue through tomorrow, yourselves in the years to come by Mr. de Valera asserted the treaty bringing in a substitute providing that was entirely, inconsistent with Ire- the county shall be taxed whenever land's position and that, if it -were rat ine jocai community permits a crlm- n;eu, ireiana would continue subser- intw asoauii upon a woman.' i wn jcmgiana. OVERLOOK BOMB THROWER. Representative Aswell declared that. ?",on- ymg he stood for whiio f.vp mrn hn tnnk r,Qr-t i o : . independence and .. .. . - " i snort k'i it lynching would be punished under the I rvn,, w' bill, "you overlook the bomb thrower sP.OKe m support who strikes at the very foundation of " 1"'," rejection. the Government, Why not tax New ment of th? nVt tnlWu 1 -e Sentl" York, Chicago or Washington every t Voume o?LS f S- the !tme by time an anarchist throws a bomb in Members who .not-pr? the vari' nnp of ihpsp r,tip in ript,-v nfp o,-.i I , members who spoke. It appeared nronertv?" ' r.,tl.l1"1i "e"'y as between The Louisiana n charged that the put pose ot me 0111 was to corra tne (TV11, WAR TIIRKATIT.X'C liepuDucan vote in me next election" London tw iq-Tts . . ' , and that, if enacted into law. "it PreSS-CivS wi ? t.h Ssoo:a.ted would do harm rather than good." t Ti?.- IrflaJd' arising "You fail to recognize," Mr. Aswell Lw.in? PrP8.ed said t w, wt.. "..ui: ponaent of The Westminster GazettP interest: in such legislation. He. know, iosThall ISSc edagiSt Zt Ms white neighbor and friend is ever win to the Sinn tAtT 5 ready to protect and defend him. It 'fhetry is he mniinal negro and the agitator appoint a representative t the bound of the jsorth and East, both black and arv commission and. if the commission white, that misleads you into griev- operates without her consent and X ious error on this sort of ignoble leg- rates any part of-her territory to the wV: v. -' , soutn. tnere will be civil war before sh , ,,v. i-Aivv t-rxrKfiJk nnu I partS Wtlll It. court win give prompt anu exact jus tice, tnere is no mob action," Mr. RATIFICATION PREDICTFn Asweu asserted. his end, however, Dublin, Dec. 19. (By the Associated muoi. j. iii.atc in me wiintieiire ol me mss) Katification of the Irish neace community, not in dictation or interfer- treaty by the Dail Eireann was predict- eu y we auDiin correspondents of Lon don flPWfllianoro a a tVi A Trail non,kTA i;nable to find pilot. for todAvi nnwir spcsin xrr; Newport News, .Va., Dec. 19. M.vs- exnressed the heiipf that m.. tery shrouds the fate of the pilot of favoring ratification was small but an airnlane, which this morning fell sufficient to prevent an upset when the in the woods to the north of this city, vote came. Persons, reaching the machine a short Some of the eorrespondpnts last night time at'ler it fell, saw no one and ut- declared that an informal poll had al- tompts to ascertain the identity or ready been taken in the Dail. revealing whereabouts of the flyer proved futile, seventy-four treatv advacata 100. ana ne recalled how the impulsive iivss or method the Br on the anxious seat dav and niebt. 'n body knew what M. Clemenceau would do next. Nobody has known here what the French delegation had up it's sleeve. Aside from the intrinsic interest which the incident possesses as an ex ample of continental diplomacy, the truth is the French have not intended to go so far as to prevent an agree ment on naval questions. They have sought only to show the world and Great Britain, in particular, that while it may be a fact that the French naval strength is relatively small, this was The session which draw., no reason to regard; France as a second on Tuesday morning has ben one of H,f t f A he "Elusion of Fran.-- v.yv i'uvv, J-. i LJ L L LU appease French pride but the true ex planation of the French maneuver m thrusting upon the conference at the last moment a demand for a big battle ship program cay.be found in the strain ed relations which for months have been noticeable between Great Britain and France. Prime Minister Lloyd-George and the British generally have felt that French policy was mistaken in nego tiating a separate peace with the Turks. FEARS BRITIISH POLICY. France, on the other hand, had felt that British , policy in the Near East was a menace to French economic in terests. The controversy had not pro ceeded very' far when Premier Briand told the Washington conference that France expected to ask for a large number of submarines. When he left for Europefi a reporter in New York asked him what France wanted so many submarines for and he was quot ed as replying in cynical vein that France "wanted to fish for sardines" and investigate under-water vegeta tion. This remark enraged British pub lic opinion. Lord Curzon made his fa mous speech, warning France that a ;en up, for the head of the Amer.can : the French and thoir peculiar delegation had minced no words in ex of negotiating had kept both t Pressing- himself in private anl the itish and American delegations ! rlch knew exactly the depth of his u,c "iesi. special sessions that has ever been held in Raleigh, and the number of bills introduced and dispos ed of will show almost as high a fig ure as did the special session of -190 winch lasted longer: ; Both houses have worked: njght and jtjy -.'-during i great er part of- the-tinsince -December 6 and even if errors in the passage of the municipal finance act through the. lower House had . not kept the legislators here two days longer ad journment could have been secured on last Saturday only through much long er sessions, and slight . consideration of many mportant measures that have come up. . . Two especially significant things characterize the special session of the Legislature. One of these was the utter lant- nf any disposition on the part of mem bers to interfere with the administra tion of the road program mapped out by the general session earlier in the year. Before the session convened there were a number of sii??PsMnna that different members would bring their road quarrels to the Legislature but if a single bill has been introduced as a result of county road quarrels over the location of roads, or over dif ferences of opinion with the Highway Commission, such bills have not come to the attention of members of either House. A session of the Legislature without some kicks against a Depart ment that is engaged in as big an un dertaking as is the Highway Commis sion ,s rather remarkable. Another noteworthy thing about the special session has been the fact that there has been no disposition to back track on the big building program laid Ullt ov jne same body in its regular session. This, of course, is a tribute to the administration of this program. Be- lore tne special session convened there was a good deal of talk that 7ii-ati cnanges in the tax program might be undertaken, but the only , bills intro duced about the taxat oeen merely ior tne purpose of clarify ing the law. Just as significant has been thp i-ir. iory or ur. Krooks and the State De partment of Education. Thp developed more opposition to the Ad ministration of the school svstem than was dreamed of before the session con vened, but in every instance the De partment of Education has been able feeling. This delegate said it was be cause Mr. Hughes had given an in piession or complete sincerity that was aDie to argue so vencmently against ine new proposal withou; of lending: the French But when the incident blows over as seems inevitable now after the confer ence in London between Prime Minis ter Lloyd-George and Premier Priami the French will find that they have made a colossal blunder. They have only strengthened what was previously a suspicion as to their erratic policies in worid airairs and have driven the anu Americans - closer together something the French have never been anxious to see happen WILL HURT FRANCE. ine cnances are that if the truth aoout tne latest episode Were fullv known in France and the effect .on American opinion minutely examined it would..be.. found bytJlie French; that tney nave lost in prestige more than tney ever could have gained by an ab sotute assent to their ideas of naval ex jjanoiuu, ounie ueiegates nave even gone so far as to express a fear that the French tactics might endanger the success of the four-power treaty by giv ing its opponents in the Senate am munition for attack on the ground that tne ink on the treaty is hardly dry before the French have reversed their earlier promises of acceptance in prin ciple of the American naval nronosals. Still that's 'the way of the French in diplomacy. It's no surprise to thnsp who attended the Paris peace confer ence, but the French upon reflection, will find that the Harding Administra tion has not failed to take note of the affair and will not be as likely in the future to take French protestations at tiieir iace value SUIT IS WON BY GOVERNMENT Open Competition Plan of Hardwood Association in Restraint of Trade. (Continued on Page Two) . "that the real black man. the " A1 , unae!' e rustworthy, dependable negro of the 13 I' J5; tm'eat" nnti, n.i,,, ,;ti, v,- Mouueai eorres- PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICELARGER Bill Passed by Legislature Gives Commissioner Com plete Supervision. Washington. ,Dec. 19. The Govern ment toaay won its suit to compel cities of North Carolina, memDers ol the American Hardwood Commissioners of public safety where Manufacturers' Association to termi nate co-operative selling methods and agrements alleged to have been adopt ed for the purpose of eliminating com petition among themselves and to maintain and increase prices. ' The Government, in carrying its case to the Supreme Court, charged that the association, consisting of 603 per sons and corporations engaged in the production and sale of hardwood lum ber, combined and conspired to elim inate competition among themselves and to enhance their gelling prices in restraint of trade and that they did this by comparing and exchanging under an "open competition plan" the reports and bulletins concerning prices, stocks and production. Justice Clark said it was clear from the evidence that this was a combina tion first of all to restrict production and a combination to increase prices. The purpose of the . organization, he eaid, was to establish frequent meet ings so as to bring about concerted effort to raise prices regardless of mer it in conditions, and was unlawful, and that the action of the membership contributed greatly to large price in crease. The calling of the organization ; was responsible for it. m th.; commission form of government is in force, have been given the exclusive supervision over the police and fire departments by a law, which was 'ast week passed at the extraordinary ses sion of the State General Assembly. According to press dispatches the bill has passed three readings in both hous es and is now ready to be placed on the statute books of the State and to bo come effective as law of the land in North Carolina. The source of the bill could not be ascertained in Charlotte Monday morn ing. J. E. Huneycutt commissioner of public safety, when seen b3' a News rep resentative, declared that he knew noth ing of the bill and said the first he knew of the existence of the measure was when a friend of his called his atten-1 tion to it Sunday. Mr. Huneycutt stated that -this friend said the bill had its beginning in Ashe ville, where the commission form is nowiin effect. He said he had no idea as tt who introduced ihe bill and who PREMIER BRIAND HASAliTHORIZED HALAPPROVAl George Harvey Authorized to Notify Conference of Paris Approval. TO GET RATIO OF 1.7. Italy's Acquiescence in a Ratio of 1.68 Awaited to Complete Pact. London. Dec. 19. (By the Associated Press) France will accept the original naval ratio laid down by Secretary Hughes at the Washington conference. Premier Briand informed George Har vey, the American Ambassador, last night. He authorized the Ambassador to notify the American Government tc that effect. Although Premier Briand's author ization. which has already been convey ed to thP French delegation in Wash-, mgton and the American State Depart ment, makes no mention of subma lines there is reason to believe that the. French pr6posals regarding under sea cr:ift weiv discussed by M. Briand ti lli laslor Harvey. It is hint ed that the French may have more to say on this subject. ACCEPTANCE "IN PRINCIPLE." lam Dec. 19 a dispatch from London to the semi-official Hava Agency today that Premier Briand ha intormed Ambassador Harvey in Lon don that ranee accepted Secretary Hughes proposals concerning capital ship tonnage as follows: United State u. , f la,'Kl 5' Japan 3 France 1.7oV ltd 1 J The interpretation put upon Premier Lnand s interview . with Ambassador Harvey in official circles here this fore noon was that France's acceptance of the American point of view as to na val tonnage was an acceptance "ir, principle" only so far as capital ships were concerned, and that it did not alter the French insistence upon ade quate allowances of submarines ami cruisers. It was also declared that, so far as the official advices received here show ed, no definite ratio had yet been ac cepted by France. ' Miss Violet Pash has returned from her vacation considerably . disappointed as she only had one day o' croquet weather while ske wuz gone. Hereafter bootleggers who are arrested 'II have t' pay t git tljer names in 'The' Slip hornTas,it has long been th' policy o' that oapervnot t' publish business ad dresses iri 'its news columns." . ; an open competition plan lead in was mis-! From what could be gathered eor- and misnomer an old evil in cerning the bill, it was inferred that the It . is i utile, he stated, to argue the a new dress and a new name, he said, i commissioner of public safety will hav ! absolute charge over the olice and fire plan. Judge Brandeis declared it to be "an extraordinary fact" that the Supreme Court should alter its decision in the United States Steel Corporation cases, where 50 per cent of the industry is controlled, and in the United Shoe Ma chinery case,, where nearly all the shoe machinery of the country was controlled, holding them not in viola tion of the Sherman law, and -should hold in the present case that 365 out of many thousand hardwood operators "cannot exchange information without running counter to the provisions of the Sherman law." SIXTH RESERVE BANK CUTS INTEREST RATE Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19. A reduction of the interest rate on all classes of paper from 5 1-2 per cent to 5 per cent was announced today by M. B. Welboum, governor of the sixth Federal Reserve K&nk. departments and will be able to appoint me suDorcunate neads of the depart ment without interference. Under the present fprm in Charlotte the appointive offices must be filled by tne enure noara, two out of three being tne necessary number for appointment. At the beginning of present admini stration a strenuous fight was made bv Mr. Honeycutt over the re-appointment or y alter a. orr. as chief of the police department. The commissioner of pub lic safety announced his intention of standing for the dismissal of Chief Orr, but this opinion was not concurred in by the other members of the commission and Chief Orr was retained in his pros ent caacity. r; Under the bill, which it has been re ported has become law, it is said that the commissioner of public safety will he able to dismiss and appoint subordi nate heads of the two . departments of the city government. In addition to this, the public safety commissioner will have final say-so in all matters .er taining to the two municipal subdivi- j sinus.' jt-waa said. . , j CREATED A SENSATTION. Washington, Dec. 19. (By the Asso ciated Press) Unofficial advices from London and Paris saying France had accepted the naval ratio proposed for her by the American Government crea ted something of a sensation in arms conference circles todav hpnanno ti,. development generally was interpreted as marking one of the longest steps yet taken toward a naval reduction agreement. Among those who have been dirprtiv concerned in the latest phase of the ratio negotiations, there hari wn confident belief all along that the Pans Government would accept, but even the most optimistic has not ex pected the agreement to come so soon. The request of the French naval ex perts here for a capital ship tonnage twice as great as that nrnvirlpH in ti, American plan had brought the nego tiations to a rather critical ,,i a long and perhaps stubborn debate nan ut-en lorecast generally. Details of the settlemont offpt London between Premier Briand and Ambassador Harvey were received with general expressions of gratification, xne result, it was said. clear- the way at last for consideration of details of the naval program and perhaps for an earlv conHnsinn v, whose conference. Some further discussion mav n nor.. essary to bring Italy's views into ac- -oio wnn uie live-power ratio pro jcsal, but no nrolonereri on that point are exneotprl Tt,0 plete American proposal for expansion of the three-cornered a. five-power treaty is reported in the Pans unofficial dispatch providing for1 a ratio of 1.7 for France and 1.68 for Italy, as compared to the "5-5-3" i ready agreed upon for the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The Italian delegation has insisted hereto tore tnat their Government should have as large a figure as France Throughout the discussions, how ever, the Italians have shown a ten dency to make every reasonable con cession in the interest of harmonv and it would surprise the conference if any serious 'hitch arose over the narrow margin that has been left between the French and Italian standings. NAVAL MEETING POSTPONED Washington, Dec. 19. (By the Asso ciated Press) Today's meeting of the arms conference naval subcommittee of 15 was postponed until tomorrow at 11 o'clock by Chairman Husrhea unon ro. quest of M. Sarraut, head of the French delegation. The French delegation, through Am bassador Jusserand. explained to Mr Hughes that M. Sarraut had cabl-d Premier Briand on Saturday for fuvth.' instructions and that a despatch of .some length had just been received from the Premier, which would take some time to decode. FURTHER EXTENSION OF TIME Dedham, Mass., Dec. 19. Further ex tension of time until January 15 for filing a formal petition for a new trial was granted in the Superior Court here today to counsel for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo VanZetti, found guilty of killing a paymaster and his guard at South Braintree. fuiSsETTLED Charlotte and - Viclnitv? cloudy tonight and Tuesday, probbl'vi becoming unsettled: not mnrh rhamr'J In temperature. Gentle northeast winds.. ionn ana soutn Carolina: Generally cloudy tonight and Tuesday, probabl'vl becoming unsettled; little change iitj """' "Mirny I 'A I
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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