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HEARING IS HELD UP
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B APHI'OT SEATSNEWBERRY OF PEACE PACT
VT;:b;'c-.cTi. Dec. 21. Failure of a
t.;n-'M 1- o: witnesses to appear led today
i t i.'.c :iljournnient until January 4 of
puhlio hearings being: conducted
,v a ffiiMo committee into charges
. by Senator Watson, of Georgia,
ihfit .Arr,---rioan soldiers were hanged
v!hri.:t ti ial in France.
A ft or adjourning, the committee went
".'n executive session to determine
wh.' firiinn. snouia oe lanen in the
rjf of several witnesses who. when
-rmr.T. nan teiegrapnea tnat they
uiiew(v ower Pacific
Treaty Conference
Wltr c DpWot
nor. respond.
; n'hliefc-n. Dec. 21. Called today a
i ' frit in a second list of witnesses
I Vi ti'.p Ser.ate committee investifation
I r charges by Senator Watson, Demo
! rvi. Oeergia. that American soldiers
I , vieari hanged without trial in
1 rnr.ee. Clarion J. T allis. of Athens, Ga.
I reared he was a corporal shoot and
j I,:!! a. private so.dier at Camp Wheel
I fr. Oorpfa.
j The witness said he did not serve
I fvrr'fis and had no evidence bearing
crs cxe-utions on roreign soil. The con-
I J-..T31. he said, was named Crawford
I nri the man shot, he thought, Private
I a:iey. of Tampa, Fla.
j Wn; !? read a letter from one of his
j r'tr.rad'.?? at Sandusky. Ohio, attackin
I ( r? of a f teorgia regiment and in-
I air.? r.e would get even some day
"Some of these Georgia officers were
? rrotry pad rrom that?" TVallis
65ked.
was
I "Yes. indeed." he replied.
J "This seems to be a Georgia family
I row." said Senator Ernst. Republican
I Kentucky, and Senator Watson joined
i in tr.e laugnter.
At this point. Senator Watson offered
i a :p'ram received today from James
Milton, of Chattanooga. Tenn., say-
j in? he had witnessed the killing of
Ha'!ey by Crawford and would come to
Washington to testify to that effect
j nther tlfgram from W. F. Brock, of
j !-:,'',a'B. a said the soldier was killed
j ..use he was iil and unable to work
I i ti t Crawfnrd was not tried by
I :r;--::art:a!. Wallis. however, had an-
i ' 'rsion. saying that Crawford
v - by court-martial, given a
. . tvnoueh and-then MM3-a sar-
: :. To the host of his recollection,
t ..; .,n?r was in May or June 1918.
-!-::.; rf the telegrams rcferrprt tn
1 n-yiord as a captain, but Wallis stuck
' ' '.v. story that he was a corporal at
:Jr.e of the shooting.
n-r.r,rts published at the time of the
.-.eek-r "oting. Wallis said
s;owed that Halley was shot while re---.m?
f.rret. i,!ir ho added such re-n;-t,-
wf-fe not true.
"Did h. the corporal provocation
Miwur.g mm.'"
'-'AD 0 PROVOCATION"
,i;u1;;;:'t!' At the time he was
Senator Watson
DOES . PLYTO JAPAN
President HasNo "Objec
tion" To The Construc
tion Already Agreed To
Y,Sh?gton- Dec- 21. (By the Asso
ciated PressV-The British delegation
;UT cancelled reservations i! ha3
made on a stpam.r ,;i.- "rta
v,i. uihS irom ivew
oik on December 31. It was state
upmhflra r . . L WAS stated
is little u "gation think there
i? wn?S of ? eir bei"S able to
i-ne miaaie of January.
Washington. Dec. "1 m a
?l?MbDePnt of he cE
m;;'".ww .tween President
oToT I. lne,.Am arms dele-
iu application of the new
n fCTi,:":1 treaty and a break
1 '-""ie-Japanese negotiations
nfUfUnS had thrown naS
side of the arms conference program
otSmeThat into the backgrouno?
Acceptance by France of the Ameri
can tirnnnodl t -1 -- , . "leu
V r. -iiu.uuu tons in caD-
al ships had placed the naval negotia
nons on a comparativelv
again although the French reserva
tions tor a higher ratio in small de
fensive craft still remained to be treat-
tion"ntnntln: that he had 'ino objee-
lion to the con5?tnintirv e t
cific treaty agreed to by the American
delegates, that it shall anniv t i '
principal islands of the
foiP?8?der:t HardinS: declared in a
tormal statement, issued after t,
expressed the opinion in an interview
with newsnaner men vos(dot
,-i ; , , . . - ; - ' virv nidi JL
aid not anDlv to thro icio
the difference i n view in nricj in
be permitted to embarrass the confer-
CnCe. r he ratification of the agree
ment." The President's Rtnt
sued after a two-h
benato.-s Lodse and TTnriwrH
Ao-4 7 "v, ul cue
Y ue,t'saiion, was the first of
hcial confirmation that an understand.
mg existed amonsr the rft oo
, 1.- - -o-v.o a. a iu
rtiJiJiiciinon 01 the treaty
The President's expression of nmr.
ion on the matter, nithn,, c,.,;
i . p,.. .LilU
ATM PI 1 1 C r 1 - . l - , -
wiuoc iu mm to nave been
made without consultation with his
otctte department advisers anrl witv..
out any intention of announcing the
Administration's attitude, created at
once an evident desire among the
-n.ncu iL-ans. tsritlStt. .lananot:n j
.,1 diiivt; mat tne attitude of the
American Government ho
aron Kato, head of the Jananese di0
gation and one of those who showed
greatest interest in the President 'a
titude. said prior to Mr. Hardino-'
mal statement that a nledse of
prevented him from divulging whether
"-u oeen an agreement as to ao
phcation of the treaty. He added that
the "meaning adopted at the time of
.-mS.,w,s mignt oe cnanged in the fu
iuie. &u x can say nothing at this
arm had been hroken
'. I0.r rrusinff to work and
was struck down
ig to w-ork and
dying the next
1 Wuii;.. ... ...
l H h Irr"sstxanunat,on' Pxplain-
i i' , i, ''ad Jen rourtmartlaled
1 ' :s' P'V for ten Aava
, ; -';' ' and being locked up for
ovVtan'-r. thp s-cond' Ho said he
n;ari:v
"Th
returned in each r-aa
fi-e are three A U' t
"M mv (FI. ' '" ' "'arses
"''- papers," ne said
f thf' u';'r Department said
I ."",r,o tne records to de-
J . . V ' ru( n case as that describ-
I u ;c t f ' ,-,,1
0::
lad concluded hie to.
''lf' Ilnlrios r.f !. x ,
-i, ... - me otner
I',';; T'T- ::.n!nr'!10fl 10 appear todav
o;"fv,i ti 'V none or' the ve re
,, ' 1 lie hearing then went over
h.,hJ., with the
expectation
.......-c.- inignt arriv!
:ri,e.
s-;, ft' Jr Hierome T,. Opie.
-; ;,',.'''!: va- v-'ho commanded the
"J. ,'r'i0n' l'Rth infantry. was
T'"::V-y l'r'fore the committee
..' j ;:'fying yesterday. Henry L.
, . -in, o.-e. Ohio, declared h
:. 1 )y" of the third battn
f .ntnnti-y. kill two soldiers at
.,.. .,." without provocation.
. ' ; from his home at Staun
.; " categorical -denial charact
.?(-'."" n a "skulker". In a let
1 I l .yfi n t f. nr r. n .1 . . y-, . ,
'' A- Rfcthel, assistant iudrr.
?'-nerni. stated that Colonel
' "'nmand of the unit men-
. ' " t. that he had a fine re
"' " T'lr" War had titc.r nn
I3 a lieutenant rrlnnr7
..w - u .r i , . A
not
'f,! immune;1
:m fh,;';. committee decide to
1 wr..-,. .V, 1 witness," Colonel Beth
' V not see how he could
lis ri;,, h 'on of self-incrimination
oin army of the
," , '"rminated his amena
( ja court-martial. He
; 'i r,j a cjvjj court of
'aVf j'u--r';;,- s!.,c" court ever did
i!-vt..,j ( r .. J" or tfie offenses, it was
!" t'--, ' s;t'''f' as I indicated in
" u ,.;,"-'t I.. - Hp ("ou'd not be tried
-:tf-.. .. "" L ('i the lnitf.d to)no
V'' i: . , ' , W"e committed in
the. - - J r r the witnoca ci
iilfio rf gave
' I'.'r -Vn n(l other Person who
v, " to testify in the case.
"tr.-s-. ':.'? the only available
. ''. " iS desirorl -. ,,v.,..
ir.riv, ....
!..' ";Sno explanation as tn th.
v.-,'rc. , !' sx witnesses whose
mi, r, ,'P( and who had been
J !" .
h, - ':i-'n3egee directed Colonel
'"f a ,h'''lJ0Vt whether it were
' v,Dy that cer
.f',,t who were prenared tr
Hie
prenared to
court-martini gcoinst
: a jfrd had not been per-!;-
- Wore the court.
;an' "this cLVf; il the chair
committee wants to know
,?MSril,TKK THERE
fi,i-m-'t ('- 21 Major Brt
""juidin oi tne leist
Par Eastern matters had assumed
added prominence today through the
abrupt adjournment vesterdav nf 'tva
Shantung conferences between the
Chinese and Japanese delegates after
the latter had announced that they
could proceed no further on the ques
tion of restoration of the Kiao Chow
Railway to Chinese control without
relerring certain points to Tokio for
instructions. Although the adjourn
ment came with the delegations also
still far apart on the question of fi
nancial settlement by China for the
road, the chief stumbling block, re
garded as threatening the entire Shan
tung negotiations, was the Japanese i
piuouf-ai mat Japanese experts be ap
pointed in the service of the railway.
The naval situation remained mnr
or less at a standstill today while the
French delegates were understood to
be preparing a definite proposal as ta
tne amount ot auxiliary naval ton
nage, including submarines, desired as
aconamon to their acceptance of the
-io.uuu proportion ior capital shiDs. to
oe presented at the meetine of the
committee of the whole on limitation of
armammts.
President Harding's statement, is
sued last night after he had announced
in the afternoon statement that "the
treaty no more applies to' the
island constituting Japan proner than
it does to the mainland of the United
states, touows:
"When the President was respond
ing to press inquiries at the afternoon
intervisw today (Tuesday), he express
ed the opinion that the homeland of
Japan did not come within the words
'insular possessions and insular domin
ions' under the four-power agreement
except as territory proper of any other
nation which is a party to the agree
ment. "This expression," the statement
continued, "has been emphasized as a
division betveen the President and
the delegates to the conference in con
struing the four-power agreement.
"The President announces that the
difference in view in no wise will be
permitted to embarrass the conference
or the ratification of the agreement.
He had assumed all along that the
spirit of the conference contemplates a
conndence which pledges respect of
territory in every way which tends to
promote lasting peace.
He has learned from the United
States delegates to the conference that
they have agreed to the construction
which includes the homeland of Janan
in tne term "insular possessions and
insular dominions and has no objection
to that construction.
Entire Election Was Taint
ed, Senator Kenyon, of
Iowa, Tells Senate.
STATUTES VIOLATED.
Foundations of This Gov
ernment Will be Under
mined if He is Seated.
Washington, Dec. 21. Declaring the
money spent in Senator Newberry's
campaign for election to the Senate
irom Michigan, "regardless of anv t.
.'lf :?ntire eIlctin to be.
. .T. ivenyon, Kepublican,
a?rVa sserted i a speech in the Sen
ate today on the Ford-Xewberry elec-
seTt nnt- at if that bod' vted to
-nn M 6 .Mlchisan Senator, it would be
undermining the foundations of this
2Tonnen?'eSen,tP''rU,e f the eo
is gone Senator Kenyon said, if ihe
Senate "justifies the expenditure of
hundreds of thousands of dollars to se
cure a seat here."
.awu snows an expenditure of
at. ast $23.000. Senator Kenyon
"rom athSnf V?at "the Plain inence
from the testimony is that a much
larger sum was expended."
trefJh re-?vrd snored 'the expendi
tuie of a million dmiavo r -
S?' tor Iven5ron continued. "I
Put nn "t 8tl" WUld 8Wlt
iut no senator who will stuir v,,-
with an open mind and forget that he
Amemb?r f any Political party can
oo otherwise than arrive Qt v,
elusion that the statutes' nfuJz: '
were flagrantly violated; that such
sums of money were snent in tho
fif Jf 1 a 8 to, shock public conscience, and
lent election is tainted and fraudu-
STRICTLY PARTY VOTE.
X0 argument here ic 4-
change any votes. The' Jfa
pushed at a time when the country can
jvnuvv uut mue about it. If Mr New
berry were a Democrat, he would be
promptly voted out under this record
ftf, fwe :?.emocrata would be found
stoutly defending him. It is unfortun
rim,rakn ai)y tluestion of public mo
rahty there slotdd be a dividing line
of polities in the chamber.
4. 1-' e -ewoerry case is
any test of Republicanism. I deny the
seven million maloritv nf iv. Dn!,i:
Question of Ratification or
Rejection Still is Very
Much in Doubt
ALTERNATIVE IS WAR
Lloyd-George Gave Ireland
Choice of Signing or
Else Going to War
Dublin, Dec. 21.-Bv the Associated
t ress.) The Dail Eireann today enter
ed fh thivrl rlov Jt ,
. v,!. puollc discussion
of the Irish peace treaty, with the
outcome of the vote on the question of
ratincation still in doubt.
Claims of the opposing factions rang
ed from a majority of two against th
treaty to ten in its favor.
George Gavan Duffy, one of the Irish,
plenipotentiaries was the first speaker
before the Dail. He explained his rea
sons for signing - the document, afvl
aoded:
"I will recommend the treatv re
luctantly, but sincerely, because I sr0
no alternative."
Duffy's speech indicated that
assumed the treaty would be 'ratified'
He said it would be the dutv of
framers of the. Irish constitution to
P ace the foreign King at a con Rid---'
able distance from the Irish people "
He contended that Ireland " could
TV, "t6- F"?'s head from the coins
of the Irish Free State and could abol
ish the Lnion Jack, and that, in fram
ing their constitution, the Irish people
should put the . King "into exterior
darkness" as far as possible.
President Merely Stated
His Own Personal Opinion
No Conflict Between Him And the Secretary of State
Since They Had Not Discussed the Matter; Is
Satisfied With Either IntprnrAtntinn
ither Interpretation
fSS8 ith various Parts of the Brit
L? EmE?le -as -to whether they are
possessions - or whether thev
-Py t,heTstatus of "dominions," or
nations In order, therefore, not to
offend Australia and New Zealand
,iuage "insular dominions" was
Si nnfc the American dele
gates, when confronted with the su.
fo6S ncmdeatTthiS misht be interpreted
harm i J3?n' ?aw any Particular
in B"ch an interpretation since
By DAVID LAWRENCE
StafC CorrMliaiida.t f rrii.. 1r
Copyright. 19J1, by jew Publishing Co.
Washington, Dec. 21. Government
is not only a very human institution
out an immense organization, and
some times one branch of it dr.o .
thing which the other knows nnthin.
about. "&
That's the explanation for the nnin.
ion which President Hardin inno
cently voiced at his meeting with the
newspaper correspondents concerning
-..calling ui me iour-power pact,
an opinion which was at once sent
broadcast as a conflict of view and
contradiction of ideals between Secre
tary Hughes and the President. 1
In fairness to all sides, the facts or
the incident ought to be stated. Mr.
Harding submits twice a week to in
terrogation by the newspaper corre
spondents. They offer their Questions
m writing and Mr. Harding can an
swer or not as he pleases. One in
quiry related to the debate which has
been going on in the Senate as to the
true -neaning of the preamble of the
new our-power treaty which reads:
'With a view to the preservation of
the general peace and the maintenance
of their rights in relation to their in.
fitllar nnceic.oiAnn .-i ; , , . ! an Wflft Qtfnnl.J i '
ioons d.i,u msuiar aomm-it, i" uy a .power other
ions in the region of the Pacific ocean." ai on of the other three signers of
Tina r,ii,,.i- Tr.c , ... the trpntv n . r.1"11118 ol
.. vi-.j o vmcuiti Liie woros "in- aa AUI example. Russia
sular dominions" included the home-1 Germany, the United State L?',
nftev all i -v-.x .a.uiuii since
aitei all, the purpose of the treatv
was not to guarantee rights but mn
ly an agreement "to respect" eaob
other's rights and in the went of a
dlXmacv trV -t0 SGttle the matte?fby
diplomacy or joint conference The
STf riCl? the treaty isCthe Vnt
four powers are threatened v lut
aggressive action of any other power"
nictewUrLT.8 sha -rucate
with each other and arrive at
an understanding as to the most ef-
or'larateivf l be tan, joLtlv
or separately, to meet the exigencies
of the particular situation." tncies
COULD REMAIN NEUTRAL
iIfwLdidJa ,th.-efore, that Jap-
ULTIMATUM ISSUED.
Going over the evente ti-o
m London on December 4 and 5, lead
mg up to tne reaching of the agree
ment. he said that Prime ats,..
Lloyd-George had issued an ultimatum
iruuniHS ine signatures to the treatv
or all the delegates under the threat
Lf1MI-ie(l-ate ,war' They believed
that this time he was not bluffing. It
i'uuy saio. as the Prime Minis
tfr S nffinial nt-ir-i . . .1 i , ...
i f "'s"" ueuiiirea, w grim
llion majority of the T?ennn
can party last Fall was a vindication of
any such methods. The day has not
et arrived when a few gentlemen in
the Senate of the United States cani de-termine-what
Republicanism is I so
God save the Renub! ican nartv "
( The Iowa Senator declared it was
nonsense to say that Senator New
berry knew nothing about the en.
i-aign, adding that the record fairly
iccmcu wilii eviaence snnwine- tViai- ir-
- . .. -..g . . L . . . .
i'.cnrucny was ine active manager
iiici trui anu uie guiding genius."
"The people of the countrv dn not n.
dorse the large expenditure of money
in campaigns. Last year the Renuhli-
cans did not dare nominate either Hen
eral Wood or Governor Lowden because
or tne enormous expenditures in their
campaign. '
DAVIDSON STUDENT
BODY SUSPENDS 28
Twenty-eight members of the sonho-
more class of Davidson Collee-e Viav-e
oeen suspended until January 13 fnr in.
dulging in hazing, according to infor
mation from several members of the
scuaent oooy who live in Gharlntto
The suspension was bv order nf the
stuoens governing council of the ert.
lege, to wmcn body disciplinary meas
ureb oi mis cnaracter are entrusted
wilii aie approval of the college, fac
ulty.
It is stated that the incident result
ed irom an episode a few- nights ago
wuen niemoers ot tne sophomore, took
me mcmoers ot the freshmen class,
or some of them, out for a "walk." It
is also said that the sophomores admin
istered the corrective paddle in one or
two cases where the sophomoric wis
dom itemed application of the paddle
was n.ieaiui.
SENTENCE VON JAGOW
FOR PART IN REVOLT
Leipsic. Dec. 21. (By the Associated
Press) Dr. Traugott von Jagow, formet
Berlin Police Commissioner, was sen
fenced to five-years imprisonment to
day bv the Federal Supreme Court for
the part he plaved in. the Ka nn rovnl t
oe .Mare: ia:u, which temporarily over
mrew tne itigoert Government.
jcau mini rms mornins's new .
me semi-omciai denial from
""'au'' L'xai- treaty nad been sift-nsd
u,m auress. irie said the complaint
l;oc nAf ll. . u . 1
.mi ma l ine alternative to a treaty
was war. but that war was the alter na-
TV.eJ, . is Particular treaty, and the
jusri ueiegates- had bef iven thr-e
hOtirS tO TPBCW .a-deeiol-r iJi i ...
".-.iiuii. uuuui ret-
erence to the home government, under
ic . penany of "letting loose fresh
i..rrors or savages to trample, torture
cijju urucuy Ireland.
aaaed that the treatv save reil
t V . me nrst time, and that
iitmnu wouio oe in a better position to
xeiaun tnat power and resist aggression
than ever before.
The treaty, he declared, must be
, V 1 In Ine interests of the people
or Ireland.
Eamonn J. Duggan, the last of the
" s" Plenipotentiaries to speak in thh-
-f eU..d-eTiied that he llad been
Lluffed into signing the treatv. He
said he had signed it in calm seclusion
and 'with due consideration to the
country, the living and the dead." He
warmly urged ratification.
Opposition to referring the Anglo
Irish -reatV tO the THsb e1eero ,
voiced by George Gavan Duffv, one of
its negotiators, in his argument for
ratification of the pact delivered in
this morning's session.
He declared he opposed this eours
because of the high feeing a plebiscite
campaign would create. Such a cam
paign, he asserted, would rend the
country from one end to the other
tie said he saw no alternative to the
i f, fcP".e as it he were con
fidently expecting its ratification bv
dim oi japan Senator Reed had con
tended that it did and that Amprina
was in effect guaranteeing the. terri.
tonal integrity of Japan, when in fact,
the L nited States had refused to guar
antee anybody else's territorial in
tegrity under Article 10 of the T.eae-e
of Na ".ions' covenant.
PERSONAL IMPRESSION.
ihe .President read the Question
carefully and stated his own personal
impression. He said at the nntsot
he had not consulted the members of
ihe American delegation about it for
indeed he has left to them the task of
working out such problems as these.
He did know, however, that it was
not the intention of the United States
to guarantee the territorial integrity
of Japan, and his own superficial
reading of the treatv led him tfk er,n-
elude that no such meaning was in-'
lv"uru iijd&iiii-.cn as japan herself was
a signatory to the treaty and that ob
viously it was intended only to safe
guard external rights of Japan in the
Pacific and rot her own domestic do
main, any more than the United States
was bemg given a guarantee as to
continental America.
Mr. Harding's views were based
upon personal impression and it is
vvuilii vvnne recording that when Sen
ators Borah and Poind
the ,1. ' , e.v
utai, Lxiey uoo insisted that the
inclusion of the Japanese mainland
was not intended. It so hannena hew-
ever rhat for several days the corre
spondents have been inquiring on this
point t-t the Department nf Cfo-
where Secretary Hughes frankly told
mem uwi nt saw no particular im
portance in the point thev ho .,-j
He made it clear that the phraseology
insular dominions" was used an 1
cover Australia and New Zealand
JhiCOhUr1e reca"ed all the delicacy
which the London Government has in
naturally . ' "-r would
what wa ne , f ooa offlces an do
" was noKsihie .
whether .dieri a war
a treatv evicted , '.
statement from the White f"8
might include the homeland
insular dominions"
though he feeio ,"ri'a- ,u Japan,
that u 11 aoesn't
that the tt.- " uuesn i mean
Japan's territoHal UJ
AuSSi- f Tbracin finitely brth
SfirSBi. Xogf teS
flrli. whtoL wal deem-
j u m Lea states to be a
nous menace. In the desire to nlow
nA"sttfa . and New Zeland and alo
finder raiSG an iSSUe Whic might Of
fend Japan and embarrass the whole
conference, the American delegation
agreed to the French and British Tn
ffii'J4,10? that "insular dominions"
deluded the mainland of Japan but
in doinsr so th TT4f ox.J ' Vut
blv felt that TJ; .Laies proba
nd if not compelled to
reeard than in i a"y more ln that
regard than in relation to any other
islands of the Pacific. The question
of how far the treaty imposes a mora"
obligation which mio-hf V1U1. 1
anir e- ""-'"laieiy m
any case involve the use of physical
onClhTVqUy We" to an attack
on the Philippines as any other is
lands included in the treaty, so the
addition or subtraction of ' Japan's
mainland position which ha
neeider v , wj-
w Vt . an lsiana regarded
by the American delegation as simply
an incidental affair which does not af
fect the merits of the treaty.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S
REQUEST IS GRANTED
Washington, Dec. 21 The Interstate
Cqmmerce Commission today author
ized the Southern Railway to issue $5.-
225,000 in bonds to reimburse its treas
ury for expenditures on capital better
ments.
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WAR HAS BEEN DECLARn
London, Dec. 21.-A report that the crSTm"" SSSt aniJSJS
Government of the Far Eastern re- SSStS feTfoodf Abf: hSSS"5
public at Chita has declared war on well parched crains o th' samJ rr
the Republic of Vladivostok is carried ried 5S In Docket of Sh
in a Central News dispatch from Hel- 'ilTrtllevT hSraffaSSfe
tl-f 8 c n The mssae adds short lime. Th' ceilin' o' Melodeon HaU
that the Soviet Government of Moscow fell Iat evenin' durin' th' showin' of a
is said to be sending troops and war cean film, but fortunately nobuddy
material to Lnita. uz untfvr iL '
STANDS BY STATEMENT.
I'uuiin, uec. zi. my the Associated
i ia.s. i stand DV evervthine- T
declared Richard Barton to' the ee,-
spondenct today when shown the semi
oiuciai statement issued in London
nying that Premier Llvod-Georire
r.r. 3 t. . t , -
njriucu Liie iriSil n fn nntani!ni
through a threat of war f, -.,,
uy.vn. xsanon in tne Dail Eireann. Mr.
DoiLLiii was a member of the S'nn
Fein delegation which si sm od i -. .-.
treaty.
The London statement sriven of
yesterday, declared that, if the Irish
plenipotentiaries had acted .,.
duress, it must have been the
duress of their own minds or tha
of circumstances. There had been no
eleventh-hour declaration on the part
?v th?.. Premier- It added, however,
that inasmuch as the well known
alternative to acceptance was war
there is an element of truth in th
statement (by Mr. Barton.)" -
A Dublin dispatch to The Associated
Press on Monday quoted Mr. Barton
as savin? in the Dail tho a-.
Onffith had repeatedly sought to have
the terms referred to the Dail, but
tnat i-remier Lioyd-ueorge had direct'v
nauveu mis. xxe said the Premir
had danti..J T, x
uiumcu uie ojignacure of everv
member of the delegation necssa rv or
a' vuuia lonow at once, and gave
them until ten o'clock that mVht to
juaive up men minas.
LEE HALLMAN TO
SERVE SENTENCE
Appeal Dismissed, Will Be
gin Serving Sentence
After Christmas
Monroe, Dec. 21. His aonl hnv.
mg been dismissed bv the Sunre
COUrt. Vnnn T TT.ii
Qiiiiraan, ex-service
man. and member of
tpnJfl arshville, will go to the peni-
1 "'si week in .lan-
uaiy to begin serving the ifr.H n vom: s
sentence imposed upon him by Judge
t. K. Pinley at the August term of
?,mt o61" a- 3Vry had him
?uilty of a criminal assault it Kin Ms
Louise Tolbiit, a Cabarrus count v school
teacher.
.o, niuLiier tnat her son
be permitted to be with lie;- .-luring
-hristmas Jimc earned Young Ha'.I-Tan
a stav of execution, the solictor win
m-csecuted l-.m, havig agreed to allow
him this short l'berty when th defen
dant s attorneys promised not 'o fieht
for a new trial. The dismiss of ,he
appeal by the higher court whs purely
i matter of formality, the defendant
ivtpme- nis promise to the solicitor
not even presenting: a sine-le nre-nment
in his behalf.
"Southern chivalry that has always
decreed that in a court of law r,o,-e
weight should be attached to the word
umaji Limn tu Lie wora or a man
OFFICERS CHASE
A WRONG NEGRO
Reports That Adam Miller
Had Been Captured
Prove Eroneous
Excitement was rife out in the Will
grove section of the county on the
Norfolk-Southern line, 13 miles from
Charlotte, Wednesday morning when
word was circulated in that section
that Adam Miller, negro, wanted for
alleged assault upon Mrs. D. F. Fin
ger on the Monroe road Saturdav i they were throwing court cases to a few
---c.., "t'.'i luiiiuu out to oe raise, i , ""-.' iwa.i uar witn wnom
HUNEYCUTT HAD
COGNIZANCE OF
BE PRESENTED
Tells Friends He Would
Have Acted If Measure
Had Gone Through
WAS A STAB AT ORR
Bill WritterMBy Charlotte
Attorney, Mr. Huney
cutt Tells Friends
. That he knew the bill to give Pommi..
sioners of Public Safety in North Caro
lina towns and Cities nlonarx,
their departments, introduced in the
cyecmi session or the Legislature and
which came near passing and becoming
law. was written by a Charlotte attor
ney but that he had nothing personally
to do with its authorship or pressing
its adoption, was the statement which
Commissioner of Public Safety J. E
Huneycutt made to friends Wednesday
morning.
i",A?dif the hm had been Passed" he
added, I would have acted on the pow
er which it would have vested in me as
commissioner of public safety here".
By this Mr. Hunevetitt
stood to mean that he would have exer
cised his right to have had Chief Orr
removed from the head of the police
department here. Mr. Huneycutt has
never become reconciled, it is said, to
the retention of Chief Orr. which was
brought about by Mayor Walker and
Commissioner Stancill combining
Mr. Huneycutt would not divulge the
name of the Charlotte attorney who
he said, was author of the bill and took
it down to Raleigh, handed it to Repre
sentative Fisher, of Transylvania coun
ty, and asked him to introduce and pres
its passage. The attorney's name. Mr.
Huneycutt said, would be withheld bv
mm and it was not accounted for from
any other sources sought out during the
day by many who have beecome verv
much interested1
by the friends of Commissioner Huney
cutt. The Charlotte commissioner denied
foa 6 vv?d PPted the suggestion
for the bill to be written, "putting the
responsibility upon the shoulders of the
attorney whose name he would not tell
He professed, however, that he was
very much interested in it and that he
hoped very much that it might have
been passed.
NEARLY SLIPPED THROUGH
Members of the Legislature, returning
home Tuesday night, said they had
never heard or seen anything of the
bill until they heard of it unnn iheir
arrival here. Representative Matthews
said Wednesday morning that there
were 1,200 bills introduced in the House
during the closing session and that lit
tle attention was paid by members even
to the captions of these measures. The
local representatives, he said, had nol
been informed of the introduction of
this particular bill nor had any of them
been asked to champion it. Represen
tative Fisher, a Republican memher rf
the lower House, engineered the meas
ure entirely, Mr. Matthews said. The
latter did not know who wrote it, but
had heard the name of "Mr. PVani.-
Flowers mentioned in connection with
its authorship".
Representatives Pharr and Person de
clared that they had heard nothing of
such a measure and expressed e-reat
surprise when it was ascertained that
iius ,nu actually passed the House on
its three readings and would have be
come a law of the State had it not been
intercepted in the Senate by some mem
ber who pricked up his ears when the
caption was read and had it immediatelv
tabled.
The introduction of the measure- a
It was interpreted to stab Chief Orr va
strongly resented not only by Mayor
Walker and Commissioner Stancil, bui
by members of the police department
who took offense at the furth
tion made in connection with the e,T,v,T.
sorship of the bill to the effect that'
FTFTEEN TAKEN PRISONER.
Belfast. Dec. 21. Rv
Jress.) Armed gangs operating in the
Limavady district of Lon donderrv
fir . . . "J
j-i men irom tneir nomes yesterday
removing them to an unkn
nation. The raiders, wh
disruised. were stransrers tn tv sk
WU'X I1UUU.
FORMATION OF BLOCS
WOULD BE PROHIBITED
Washington. Dec. 21. A
ltmg the formation in Congress of
blocs," based upon particular pursuits
of geographical locations for the pur
pose of "in anv wav affotine ino-ia.
lation" was introduced today by Rep
resentative Ansorsre. Rennbli fn TI Mew
York. Senators and Representatives
would be subject tc a fine of $5 nnn in
case it was -proved they belonged to
counsel for the defendant, said yester
day '-prompted us to abandon TTan.
mans appeal. There were errors com
mitted in the trial, we believe rjt
would give us a new trial. But what
would be the use? That same chiivarv
that prevented us from securing a
diet of acquital in the first trial wout
operate to our disadvantage in a new
trial. To secure the acouitai of o,-
client it would be -necessarv for ,-,
batter down this barrier.- As it has
(Continued on Page Fifteen.)
a. negio ot that section, who had been
mistaken for the wanted man, was
greatly relieved when, after an e;t
j jng chase, he was identified by a mem-
U1 f- quicsiy-tormed posse as some
body else than Miller.
Also during the morning the police
station received a long-distance tele
phone call from the chief of police at
adesboro that he was positive that
he had Miller locked up. He told Desk
Sergeant J. C. May son over the tele
phone that the man he held tallied in
everv detail with thQ ,
. . . " ocui, uui as tie-
awiptne oi Miller except the overalls the matter with erouns nf h,
ALas,said t0 be wearing when and Partisans about the city hall Wed
they are particularly friendly, and keep-
'iig vLuer ounger attorneys from get
ting their rightful share of such citv
court cases. Members of the police de
partment did not hesitate to express
their discontent at the effort beiii
made. Mayor Walker was sick at his
home Wednesday, but over the tele
phone, he indicated his resentment that
such ' "a trick should have been at
tempted" and expressed great satisfac
tion that the bill had been nailed in
the Senate.
commissioner nunevcuft dini.c.i
o SHOP
FOR CKESlSTMfl?
J
. CUPISTMSI
SPECIAL Lv
X
he left rv.o j, . . . b
, "ii'. nu tnat tne over
alls had been found hidden in a ne
gro restaurant in the town. A Char
lotte officer, who will be able to iden-
wyiMllier' was sent to Wadesboro
Wednesday afternoon to look at the
man being held there.
Among the many false alarms that
have come to the police station v
past day or two from sections where
Mnler was alleged to have been seen
one from Wilgrove early Wednesdav
morning seemed to bear the earmarks
"""tuuui) nm onicers were at
once dispatched to the community to
run down the reports. Later in ihe
morning other messages came from the
same neighborhood, seeming to sub
stantiate the truthfulness of the first
report and it was said there could be
little doubt that the right .man had
been sighted. He had several times
previously been reported probably in
that neighborhood and is ;known to
have relatives in that part of the
county. A messaee came ahn,, 11
o'clock that officers and a number' of
ciLiz,enS naa amiost come upon him
that several shots had' heen re '
him and that he was apparently sur-
luuuueu in a wooas. The aid of vol
unteers was also asked to help the of
ficers scour the woods and another car
with several officers started for the
scene. While the last car was enro,,re
u . :
liic oueiie, witn a number of cars
aiong containing citizens of Charlotte
word came that the man the crowd
had been chasing had been apprehend-
eu, uui naa turned out to be a harm
less man of the neighborhood instead
of the man wanted.
There is no clue as to the where
abouts of Miller at present, unless the
man being hdld at Wadesboro proves
to be the man. Fred Ardrey, the negro
arrested Saturday night shortly after
the crime and stronglj" suspected 6f
being one of the two assailants of Mrs.
linger, is still out of the city in safekeeping.
nesday.
FLOWERS DENIES CONNECTION.
J. Frank Flowers, one time candi
date for mayor of Charlotte and active
from time to time in city politics i
not the man who wrote the mysterious
iisher bill introduced in the special
session of the legislature in its dying
hours providing for placing the fire
and police departments of the city en
tirely within the control of the Com
missioner of Public Safety without in
terference from the other commission
ers. Mr. Flowers knew nothing about
mo uui, ne says untu he came tc
Charlotte, although he was in- Raleigh
four days toward the close of the spe
cial session.
There was no positive statement bv
any mtmber of the legislature or any
one else that Mr. Flowers was the au
thor ot the bill or knew anything of it
but because he was in Raleigh sev
eral days and no other Charlotte at
torney can be found who admits being
mcie ii mat time, speculation had
arisen as to whether . Mr. Flowers
knew anything about the bill. .
Mr. Flowers, -when asked about It
set all speculation at rest, so far as
his connection with it was concerned
by saying that not only did he not
hear of it when he was in Raleigh,
(Continued on Page Fifteen.)
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Charlotte and vicinitv: G enernllv fain
and colder tonight and Thursday. .Mod-'
tmto iiuiiimesi 10 nonit winds.
4
North and South Carolina: Generally
fair and toldif tonight and Thursday
at