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20 PAGES ODAY THE CHARLOTTE AND EVENING CHRONICLE MEWS "GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" NIGHT EDITION f iHRI OTTK NEW S Rsfnblishcd, Daily, 1SSS; Sundav 1910 !! : i:Vr!i chkomcle-Established. 1903. sunaay- CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1921. THE EVENING CHRONICLE (Consolidated IPT?TP17 T7TV1? r'TTXTTO THE CHARLOTTE KEWS ( May S. 1914. f IT rHO.Ej J? 1 V Hi V-l!ii i O UNITED STATES LEADER I DRUG LAW EVASIONS Soviet Relief P Signed By Har Washington, Dec. 23. ' Harding has signed the F lief bill, which carries - tions of $20,000,000 to b " under the supervision oi ican Kelief Administration. The funds become available immediately. re-ria-.ided mer- 31 ore Opium is Consumed 1.111? V. WU1U1 J .a. nun lit Anv Other. STATE INCOME TAX DU m lSK IS INCREASING. ( 'ountry Consumes About vair.e Amount That China Did 1") Years Ago. Pv MAKGERV REX. . . ' .......... ...i . mill ional . r -win luiiraiiuuurui. j far i.-K. p.c. V or every sc- ''ch .-tru'icr young .nicricaii. run i - ,,:T;iirs at top speed of ethcien ,,, danger of lotting drugs the temptation to try iwpemlerl animation" rather !;..:!'; 1 vacation, or to sub . , f , :;-o Mimuius for real vigor, i, n there are the wretched i -oped in the hopes and de- -,t ..li-eeivinat vapors that curl :'.e poppies of the East. , : ,- jn ur I'nited States is re .. .. ., r ii.it which was the China of ... (:.: midst is the China that '. Vi-.:l's greatest opium eon U. re is the Chin;, which uses , - s tu'ii'f narcot ic drugs, then , . :':; .1 ''Tintry unlay. ; .o s:rai.'e, tin n. that addicts ; et:tes to rid them of this rag- and de.-ire sink hack into the r :'. of t areotic fumes which ;;!.: are offered by Dr. Royal Viv.ml. Her 1th Commissioner of y. k City, who .advocates nation--: ;: !: to eradicate on cvii -nore th- whikey habit lately .', ; if it' t impossible by con- '. ,' ; Mv'-dm-nt . ; 1 INCREASING RAPIDLY. ,,s. nf opium is increasing, says (V.;-... C:VA. .. hundred and sixty-four Ibou - y in'";s of i i ii'ie opium were im- iiwo the l'i ited States in 1918. ye a i- after that we imported ... vour-.d.. Statistics show that M ira!i tifty gniir.s for every : wc:..ir. and child in the count! y. As regards ( pium uing. we are ;z t;T? same amount China did fif--. years ,is:o when she was .the chief c n timer of the world. The 1 S r. 's r. v has that doi-.btful A- i.'ct very mtieh excited over the -v hal'-it. Wo have amended the :'.: :'vi ns a measure against it. v. .:hont t-nt'i'in? into any dt'cus : . : r: ohi I r i n. I want to say that, ::.y :-:n i. the opium evil is infinitely ;ie.r!Uul than the whiskey habit v."hn !j drinkfr is deprived of his ::skey lffe-,?bcc-oniPs a limp clishrng. -suffers as an nidividval. . V.'hiskoy hcinar a stimulant, Ibis re :i"r cr-irs s whs n the storm subsides. "But v.lvn the opium user comes cut :.d y: J ;rr.rn C" of this drug, which s.tl.t:,p and holds the nervous a an 1 the oifians of the body in . h is '.xtitid and greatly stiniu- v.-i:!i any normal man nv.-y t" ki'I hi? Mother in-law yes. : r,r,-- n-.! slie doesn't mind !... rk t mine the opium user " ! '.is fumi-s will kill any rne. :' '.' '). vi!l suffer from him. Vnitiu Slates and Canada I j-iit in K'-Tt'crd procedure in r'-.i. opium traffic we wo ild ' " i';;r-iira worry than ro vatch --i.rg m trom foieign ports, 'i c.-.n he sure that Dr. Carietcn ''.;'.'; attend to that very thor- XT'-' must be deadt with Vy:on;i;;y ; in conunctii. n vvith i -in-i'!.. i.t i, s w, jo that we might j'-'- j' !;:( v cur hands and q;it. I v-V to fare the habit is to ? av i'able. Tf there is (''T':':n t'-'-T" can ho no habit. I; Mil "n v.r- f-r riot wipe out the habit." 3 fox t N ADMITS CRIME HARGEI) TO FATHER r v jpreyjt C ';; rni, Dec. 23. During a of Forsyth Superior Court . W. Crouse. 60-yeai-oM K- r:i-r-ville. was convicted : ' f months on the county i with manufacturing having been found on cirfondant appealed to Court which confirmed ':--:r,y, r.f the lower court. "s' Crouse, a son. ap- ,,".r' " -f'-dge r.nng 'fn Superior . y"--' ' his father had no con ','". v'':.:yrVr.r wii h the moonshine ' ;' '''!' bohijy guilty. By con ' ' f -''ieitor. a road sentence -1 TP' r ' i tt-r. c r. ;,r. i iv. ..r..-, ivril Lll- IJII, Clltr ii.-' -harged upon payment :.'ri. (,,NMislis TKAIX KOBIJKRY ' -.. Clyde Titnmon.s, i'iarl Timmons, was ,"" r i . 1 robbed Mrs. James J. Lilrt-i. lit. tXllKU 1 it i r hq t in c c. a - r v n 1 'Jl,v. meSii,!,,,,. T-...1. 1 Aij"i iian train roooery 0.0 . nil l."u . nfl 1O.O1I . n,1 1 I', bai-ti....- ;,;l,t. DAVLEFT'. f I, '. l rirtv t J. , Li - I )0.l ,o.( )0 )0 04 1 cr 4 iL ! '! ' i . . . t v J W I LOCAL LAWYERS CONCEIVED COUP One in "Indignation" Meet ing Admits That Plan Was There Thought Through. That the movement to have the pow ers of Commissioner of .Public Safety Huneyeutt. and all other commission ers of public safety in these towns and cities having the local form of gov ernment, enlarged to the point of be coming plenary, originated in the minds of a small group of young at torneys at the local. bar, was the oniy development Friday in the controversy which has been raging for the past few days as to the origin of the move ment. Commissioner Huneycutt has repeat ed his declaration, carried in The Xews. to the effect that wnile he was not a party to the movement in an active way, he knew two weeks before the bill was introduced in the Legisla ture that it had been written and tak en down to Raleigh. He continues to refuse to divulge the name of its au thor, as do all other who are suspect ed of knowing intimately of the whole aff a ir. The names of the half dozen young er lawyers at the Charlotte bar who are alleged to have held what a brother-lawyer termed "an indignation meet- illr'' somo tnnia no-n QTtrl thAnolit .n- - ' - - - ' M-ow K'lVl Llllllpll I. UUl this plan to bring about a change in the order of things at the city hall, were on the lips of many local attor neys. A number of these young law yers who were said to have been in such a conference were questioned closely about the meeting Friday by representatives of The News. Some de nied outright that they were parties to the movement. Others said they would neither affirm or deny the allegation and others evaded the question entire ly. NATURE OF MOVEMENT. The motive for such a meeting, so the Law Building story goes, was fur nished by what these younger attor neys term discrimination against them on the part of Chief Orr's officers in throwing court cases to other attor neys who. these young men charge, have gained a virtual monopoly on the criminal court practice in local courts. It is their charge that whenever a nrisoner asks members of the noliee court to recommend an attorney to Miem, jv iu get mem an mxiui ney, uney glvT" "such ; cases to one of three or four "fa vorites" .of tfhf. dpnartttapnt . The reactionary element does not" charge that Chief Orr has been en gaged in this practice, but that his subordinates made it a practice and the best way, they argued, to over come such .a situation was to start at the top in their revolution of the de nartment and enme on down. Tt was their plan to have Commissioner Huneycutt s powers so increased that he would not be compelled to abide by what his associates in ?the government of the city should have to say, but would have pewer himself to remove Chief Orr, appoint a successor to him and. through a new chief, slash heads right ind left in the department, the iilrimarp thnii"ht nf the. nromoters of ine idea oemg unai, sueii new uuiceis would be elected as would "throw more business" to them. It is understood that several of those who we e participants in what was -ermed at the Law Building as "an insurrection" were closely identi fied with Mr Huneycutt in his cam paign lor the offic3 he now holds and that pie-elect.tn plans which Mere laid would, in the event of the suc cess ot this latter coup, have been carried out. Efforts to gain an admission from those whose names are being so freely mentioned in the ' Law Building that they . ere in such a meeting as is al leged have been unavailing. ONE LAWYER ADMITS IT. The statement, however, was made by one attorney who a as invitod and who remained for a time in the alleged "indignation" session that about a half a dozen of the younger lawyers participated in it and he called them by name. Some of these whom he named, asked Friday about the matter, refused to sav whether they were or were not in attendance. They side stepped entirely. Others stoutly denied and others laughed the suggestion The belief is current, nevertheless, that some one of the group of a half dozen wrote the bill and that some othfr one of the crowd carried it to Raleigh and solicited the services of !'i.nr.Hntativ'p isner oi liansyivama, to hav-3 it introduced and engineered througn both Houses of the General Assembly. As to the suspicion that the bill was originated in Asheville and that Commissioner Fitzpatrick of that city was the instigator of the movement, it is nt locally believed that he made the firt-t movt, if. indeed, he was in terested hf any of the moves made in reference to the matter. Mr. Fitzpa trick was in Charlotte a few weeks ago and went to the City Hall to call on Commissioner Huneycutt. It was believed that the two of them may have been instrumental in starting the movement. Commissioner Huneycutt declares, however, that he did not see the Asheville commissioner, while here, and does not know him. Mr. Fitzpa trick called on Commissioner Stancill who took him to Commissioner Huney cutt's office, the latter says, but he was out and no time during Mr. Fitz patrick's sojourn here did the local commissioner get in touch with him. The general impression, as to Mr. Huneycutt's connection with the mat ter, is that he was to be identified with it only in an executive capacity, that he was not the author of the bill nor the prime mover in its sponsorship, but that he was only to carry out the provisions of the measure, in the event that it became the law. Mr. Huneycutt has stated to friends since that he was prepared to have done that. A ,. Interest in the controversy contin ues unabated and detective work to ascertain the inside of the story is be ing relentlessly prosecuted about tne Law Buiidimz. E ABOUT ST OF YEAR Revenue Department Send ing Out Blanks to 60,000 Taxpayers. v STATE OFFICES CLOSE. 2 British Warships Are Sent to Egypt Malta, Dec. 23. (By the Associa ted Press) Two British warships have received orders to proceed to Egypt immediately. Other units of the British Mediterranean fleet are under orders to leave at the short est notice. J, Will Observe Monday as Holiday; Tucker Sworn in as District Attorney. BY J l EE B. WAR BEX, Staft" Correspondent of The News. Raleigh. Dec. 23. As a gentle re minder to some 60,000 North Carolina folks that they might as well make a New Year's resolution to help the State along some during 1922, the De partment of Revenue is this week pre paing to.onail out notices to over half a hundred thousand individuals asking them 1.0 fill out the enclosed and at tached blank forms of their incomes for the year 1921. Barring accidents the Commissioner of Revenue expects these blanks to be delivered to their addresses on or before the first of Jan uary. The -nOOO corporations doing business in the State will have a few more days of grace before they will get their in come tax blanks. The blanks for the corporations were delayed by the print er, and will not reach the offices of these companies until the first week in January. Col. A. D. Watts, Commissioner of Revenue, held back printing of the corporation tax blanks for fear that some changes would be made in the law by the special session, s which would necessitate changes in the forms. The envelopes have already been ad dressed for the corporations, so that when the blanks are completed it will be merely a matter of slipping the blanks into the envelopes and sending them out. Colonel Watts thought, however, that, the blanks wouf& not roach -he office' of the corporations be fore the first few days of the new year. .Every unmarried man or woman, every .vidow or widower who. has no one dependent on them for support, who makes over a thousand dollars a year, or made that much iast year must rill out one of these returns. Ev ery married person' wr.o made ovt-r $2,000 dollars last year will have to fill out one of these blanks. Two hun dred dollars a year is aowed as an exemption for every child, but even though the exemptions will. more than cover the amount on which the in dividual is liable for taxes, the income blanks must be filled out and returned just the same. . .. The income individuals will have to pay is graduated from one per cent for the first $2,500 over the exemp tion., upwards, one and ai half, per cent on the next $2,500 and 2 . per cent on the next. The first rate will, of course, apply to the majority of the people in North Carolina. Certain other exemp tions are allowed under the income tax law. The blanks are about as simple as it will be possible to make them, for while there are four pages, the first page is the one that will be used by a majority of individuals filling them out. It will not be necessary for the average man to get an attor ney or a tax expert to fill out these returns. WILE OBSERVE MONDAY. All State offices will observe holiday on Monday. Some of the offices will close on Saturday in order to give their employes an opportunity to prepare for Christ.nas day on Sunday, but others which have an unusual amount of work on hand on account of the end of the year will have to work on Saturday with possibly half holiday in the afternoon Governor Morrison has been in Washington tl is week, but is expect ed to return to the city today. He expects to divide the Christmas holi days vith relatives in Durham and at home in Raleigh. Somo of the State officials who live out of Raleigh have already left and others are expected to leave today and tomorrow. Most of the State offices will observe only Monday for the holi days, though :ome of the clerical force will take more time off than this one day. TRIED TO SHOOT COP. The epidemic of robberies with which Raleigh has been afflicted dur ing the past week culminated Wed nesday night with the effort of some one to shoot a plainclothes police of ficer who wasi on duty in the negro section of East Raleigh. The officer was standing under a shed and the pistol shot came so close to him that it scorched the brim of his hat. The pistol was fired at close range. The person doing the shooting ran imme diately after the shot was fired, evi-? (Continued on l'ag-e SeYi.) MARSE HENRY IS QUIETLY BURIED Body Will be Removed in Spring to Rest Beside Those of Parents. New Four-Power Treaty To Preserve Peace In Europe Movement Under Way for Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany to Unite to Guarantee Each Other's Territory; Suggested by France. Jacksonville, Fla.. Dec. 23. "Mais Henry" "Watterson, content with the fullness of his life, rested today from l is labors. With only the members of his immediate family present and with the hour of the service unannnouiic d. the body of the venerable Kentucky J journalist, who died here yesterday, I was placed in a vau.t to remain until Spring, when it will be taken honn. to be given a final resting place be side his mother and father in Cave Hill cemetery at Louisville. Because of the grief of his mother and sister and for fear many persons would attempt to attend the briel and simp'e services at a mortuary chapel, which . preceded laying away of the body. Henry Watterson, Jr., arranged ! that Hie hour of the service not made public and the family requested that there be no floral tributes, de siring that thR service and everything connected with it be as simp'e as possible. The Rev. Dr. .T. T. Boone, pastor of the First Christian Chu.ch i.ere, of which denomination .Mrs. Watterson is a member, officiated. Mrs. Watterson did not attend the service, which was held shortly before noon, her son and daughter not per mitting her to do" so because of her condition as. a result of Colonel Wat terson'? death. An hour before the service began. "Airs. Watterson extend ed a general invitation to newspaper men of the c ity to be present and sev eral joined the son. daughter, several grandchildren. Judge Robert Bingham, publisher of The Louisville Courier Journal, and a half dozen close friends of the family in the chapel. TWO FLORAL OFFERINGS. In deference to the wishes of Mrs. Watterson. there were only two floral offerings in addition to those from the family. These were from A. S. Hough, chief editorial writer .for The Florida Times-Union and a life-long friend of Colonel Watterson, and Mrs. Hough, and from the management of the hotel in which Colonel Watterson passed aw'ay. A floral wreath of calla lilies, from Hie family, rested upon the cas ket while a cross of the same blos soms was on a nearby mantel. A huge bouquet of red roses was at the head of the casket. ; There was na 'music. Mr. Boone, at the request of ' Colonel Watterson's son. read the fourteenth chapter of John and, after a brief eulogy in which he spoke of the life of Colonel Watter son as an open book, closed the ser; vice with a prayer. Plans for temporary disposal of the body were changed at the last, moment and instead of being laid awajr today it will be placed tomorrow in a marble vault m Evergreen cemetery. There "Marse" Henry" will rest un til Spring in the shade of huge oaks and magnolias, surrounded by scores of his old companions of the Confed eracy who crossed the river before him. One of the most highly prized of the hundreds of messages that continued to arrive today from persons in all walks of life throughout the country was received by Mrs. Watterson from Jim Wilson, aged negro servant at the Wt.tterson home near Louisville. "We share your sorrow and anxiously await other news " it said. Arthur Krock, editor of The Louisville Times, had telegraphed yesterday: "Jim and I are weeping for the death of ' Old Marster." By DAVID LAWRENCE. Staff Correspondent of The Nwi. Copyright, 1921, by vrs Publishing Co. Washington. Dec. 23. Word has reached here through unofficial channels of a movement under way in Europe to bring about a new four-power treaty whereby Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany should agree to guaran tee each other's territory against "un provoked aggression" by any other Power. This plan curiously enough, owes its inspiration to French diplomacy seek ing a way to remove the bugbear of a possible invasion by Germany which has been held forth as justification for the continued existence of large standing armies on the continent of Europe. Broadly speakins the French liberals who are back of the plan believe the! time has come to bring Germany into j a combination with the other Powers which will tranquilize Eprope and aid its economic recuperation. In one sense the Dlan recoanizes the unwisdom of the enforcement clause ! of the Versailles treaty with its recur- j ring penalties pt occupation of German ' territory in tne event ot German fail ure to pay indemnities. The idea now is to obtain some unanimity of opinion anion g the larger Powers of Europe so that the reparation burden may be more equitably adjusted and so that Germany ! nerteit will adopt a new spirit toward her obligations under the Versailles pact. UNITED STATES NOT PARTY The United States Government will of course not be a party to such a new treaty in Europe, as it is the viewpoint of the Harding Administration that guarantees against aggression on the continent of Europe are strictly Euro pean matters. On the other hand the American Government would lend its moral support to any movement which accomplished peace in Europe. The sug gestion of a four-power pact including Germany was first discussed informally when Premier Briand was in Washing ton. Heretofore alliances have been made only between friendly nations, as an offset to possible attacks -by unfriendly nations. The making of a four-power pact between Great Britain, France, United States and Japan however, of fers a precedent because it includes the very country Japan which so many American and Japanese writers . have been regarding as the potential oppo nent of the United States. HE OF EE CLEAR POSTAL GUARD WHO SHOT STUDENTS "Washington. Dec. 23. The Postoffice Department has approved reports made by Carl W. Mays, a Marine post al guard, who shot and wounded two college students near Denmark, S. C, December 17. on their refusal to leave the train on which he was stationed. Mays contended that he was obeying the orders he had received in connec tion with his duty of guarding the mails when he fired on the couple, but added that he did not know that they had been injured until the train arrived at the next station. The post al clerks on duty on the same train said the two students had been put off several times, but persisted in re turning, and had finally taken posi tions between the "storage mail car" and that used for sorting the mails. They were in this position, the report of the clerks said, when the final warning to leave was ffiven. Mr. Harding has informally indicated that before long the European powers would have to include Germany in their discussions of European questions and that until Germany sat down at the same table with France and Great Britain there would be no assur ance of a settlement of pending prob lems, especially reparations. In the conferences which have been going on' in London the French view point has been that until Great Britain gave France explicit guarantees that she would come to the aid of France in the event of an attack by Germany, there could be no curtailment of French land armament or concessions to Germany. The British have de clared that the withdrawal of French troops from the Rhine country would help to assure peace in Europe. BRINGING IN GERMANY. The situation is therefore somewhat analogous to that which prompted the four-power pact on the Pacific. In this case the French having failed to get a three-power pact with Great Britain and the United States, guaranteeing Francs against unprovoked aggression, the alternative is to obtain such a guarantee for France by coupling it up with a German guarantee, too. French liberals who favor the plan see no reason why their own Govern ment .'hould object to it since to re fuse to give a pledge that would guar antee Cermany from attack by France might imply an ultimate intention to do so on the part, of the French im perialists. Gnat Britain would, of course, be willing to guarantee that she will not attack Germany and the latter would be bound to keep the peace, for automatically she would in cur the hostility of Italy, France and Great Britain if she attempted "un provoked aggression " It is indeed an attempt to produce a status such as might have prevented the outbreak of the wir in 1914. for it is still being said that Germany would never have gone to war if she had been sure that England would help France and Bel gium. Incidentally the mutual guar antees would include Belgium and as sure her of neutrality and indepen dence, if the plan is finally, approved. Official Washington is keenly inter ested in the conversations going on in Europe with reference to the new four power pact and it is expected that af ter the Supreme Council meets in Cannes some definite idea of this scheme, or an alternative having the same object will be disclosed. TREATY REMOVES CHANCESOF WAR Position of Japan in Far East is Strengthened by Four-Power Entente. RUSSIAN DEATH RATE RISES VERY RAPIDLY Moscow, Dec. 23. (By the Associated Press) The death rate in the famine districts of Russia is rising rapidly. More than 200 victims are buried every day in the Saratov reerion. The American Relief Administration is now feeding more than 800,000 chil dren, and the number is expected to pass the million-mark by Christmas. Distribution of food draft packages will be started at Kiev shortly, the first being sent into the Kharkov and Odessa districts. All the European relief organiza tions combined are feeding less than 100,000 children. Paris,' Dec. .23. By the Associated Press) Premier Baron Takahashi, of Japan, is quoted by the Tokio corres pondent of the newspaper Excelsior as declaring: "The quadruple entente, which for Japan replaces the Anglo-Japanese alliance, is much wider in bear ing and removes all chances of war." "I venture to say," he continued, "that the Washington conference has opened a new epoch in the Pacific and the world. I not only believe that the entente will result in making the Japan ese people happier, because it will light en their burdens, but, further than that, by reason of the guarantee we obtain, the position of Japan is strengthened in the Far East." In regard to China, the Premier was quoted as saying: "China is in an advenced stage of decomposition. It will be an unpleasant situation for Japan and a misfortune for China if, as the result of her anar chy, she does not co-operate with the friendly powers seeking .to bring about her unification." Boron Takahashi characterized tho report that Japan had designs on French Indo-China as "an absurd, fable which has no foundation in the past ami will not have in the future." If there was any discussion in Japan abcttt Indo-China, it was because Japan had not given favored-nation treatment there. He hoped that a commercial agreement on this subject would strengthen the good relations between Japan and France. PASHA WAS ESCORTED TO RAILWAY STATION FRANCE INSISTS ON HER DEMAND Final , Acceptance Capital Ship Ration Sent Today ' by Premier Briand. Paris, Dec. 23i (By the ' Associated Press) Premier Briand has sent Am bassador Jusserand, in Washington, a final and definite acceptance of the cap ital ship ratio. France, however, it is stated, maintains her position regard ing submarines and soast defense ships although she is willing to negotiate. France insists that he? demands are vitally necessary to her security, it is indicated, but is disposed to co-operate with the United Sta'es as far as possible STPONEMENT LPS CHAI RATIFICAT! Dail Eireann Suspends De bate on the Peace Pact Until January 3. VALERA ISWEAKENED Republican President Has Lost Much Prestige as Result of His Stand. London, Dec. 23. (By the Associated Press) The Dail Eireann's adjourn ment of further debate on the Irish peace treaty until January 3, although coming as a surprise here, was con sidered as favorable to the chances for ratification. By agreement between the contending factions, the Dail members will deliver no speeches touching on the treaty during the period of adjourn ment nor participate in public meetings at which the treaty is discussed, but it is believed the Irish people will get to gether and agitate for ratification. Various agricultural and business as sociations and civic bodies in Ireland are said to be planning meetings to pass resolutions favoring the treaty, and. although it is recognized that there will be some declarations against ac ceptance, it is believed the large majori ty will support the stand of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and their trea ty advocates. The adjournment period will thus be nearly equivalent to a pop ular referendum. The English newspaper correspon dents in Dublin emphasized the impor tance of the speech of Richard Mulcahy. chief of staff of the Irish republican army, in the Dail yesterday in which hi; advocated acceptance of the treaty. They thought that his support together with that of such fighting men as Mi chael Collins and J. J. McKeown, assui -ed the adhesion of the republican army throughout the country. Some of the correspondents als.i dwelt upon what they consider Eamonn de Valera's loss of prestige, as indicated by the vote for adjournment, which h opposed. De Valera's statement that. ,when he assumed the republican pres: ideney, he did not regard his oath as fettering his actions, was regarded as considerably damaging his influence. Question is raised in England at to how the adjournment will affect the position of the Sinn Felners. in prison, who were lately reported as about to receive amnesty; also as to wliether the. withdrawal tyT British troops will now affected, but nothing has developed upon whidh to base even conjecture. Cairo, Egypt. Dec. 23. (By the1. As sociated Press) S?.id Zagloul Pasha, one of the Egyptian Nationalist lead ers, who refused yesterday to obey an order issued by the military authorities that he and his chief followers cease all political activity and leave Cairo, was escorted to the railway station here today by British trpops. His re moval was accompanied by some dis turbances, in the course of which there was a considerable smashing of glass. Later, the plans were changed and Zagloul was transferred to a mo tor car and taken to Suez. The action of the authorities follow ed a fight Thursday near Zagloul's home in which two of his supporters were killed and six others wounded. The military now has assumed control of the situation. Armored cars are pa trolling the town and the authorities have announced their determination to suppress any trouble. FURTHER EXCHANGE VIEWS Washington, Dec. 23. (By the Asso ciated Press) A further exenango of views on the British proposal for aboli tion of the submarine was expected at today's session of the full naval com mittee of the arms confe.mce unless the French delegates were prepared to go ahead with their delayed presenta tion of estimates of auxiliary craft de sired by France under tho naval re duction program. Final instructions from Premier Biand were still awaited by the French representatives la';e yes terday after announcing at the naval committee session that they were un prepared to present their auxiliavy ton nage figures. While the position taken l.y spokes men of France, Italy and Japan against the total abolition of the submarine anl indiction of a like stand by the United States following Great Britain's plea for its abolition at yesterda5r's committee session apparently had settled the fatj of the proposal, there still remained to be discussed the move for an under- fttjanrfinp- to rQtriot tVA nnpratinnc of j under-water craft. This was supported by all the powers in the discussion of the British proposal yesterday and the British delegates apparently are plan ning to join in the move as an alterna tive to abolishment of the submarine. They indicated, however, that they would first carry their fight for that to an open session of the conference. In connection with the delay in pres entation of the Frencll auxiliary tonnage- figures, considerable significance was attached today to foreign news des patches saying that M. Briand felt he must consult with the French Cabinet before making definite answer to mes sages from Washington. The nature 6f the cable exchanges in progress yes terday was not revealed but they ap peared to be of an important nature and the development was generally re garded as greatly diminishing the chan ces for an agreement on auxiliary craft for several days. In some quar ters it was viewed as a possible indica tion that some new isstie of major im portance had arisen. DIFFER WITH VALERA Ennis, Ireland, Dec. 23. (By the As sociated Press) Clare County Council, the constituecy of Eamonn De Valera. yesterday voted 17 to 5 in favor of the treaty between Ireland and Great Brit ain and requested Mr. De Valera to use his influence for the maintenance o( national unity. FAVORABLE TO RATIFICATION. Dublin. Dec. 23. (By the Associated Press.) The decision of the Dail Eir eann to adjourn until January 3 was commented upon by all the Dublin newspapers today as favorable to the chances of the Anglo-Irish treaty's rati fication. A note of regret is struck, by the commentators, however, over the fact that the adjournment po?t pores the prospect of the release of the convicted political prisoners, which is expected to follow ratification of the ti eaty. Jake Bentley want t' trade his com crop fer a bicycle an' tio questions asked Ther'U be an auction o' confiscated stills in th' courthouse yard Saturday WIRELESS USED TO SUMMON FIREMEN New York, Dec. 23. Wireless teleg raphy was used for the first time here today for summoning firemen to com bat flames, and it proved to be a false alarm. The crew of a police boat, steaming down the East River, saw what appeared to be a serious fire on the Manhattan shore near Sixtieth street and a wireless despatch sent to police headquarters resulted in three engines, two hook and ladder trucks and three fire boats being rushed to the scene. The firemen found, however, the supposed conflagration was a series of bonfires kindled in some large gar ages under construction, the purpose beinff to dry the walls. MUTILATED BODY OF MISSJNG GIRL FOUND New Brunswick, N. J.. Dec. 23. The mutilated body of Tessie Kuchar ski, five years old,, who had been miss ing from her home at the Bellmore Hotel, operated by her mother, - was found packed today in a suit case in a .closet at the Hotel Albany. According . to the police, the little girl was seen to enter the Hotel Al bany at 6 o'clock last night with George Garris. 45, a carpenter, who lives, there. He said Tessie was his granddaughter. He left an hour later, alone. The police were, seeking him to day. The girl's father is under indictment in connection with an attack upon a girl, the police said. He has not been seen here. for. some time. - An autopsy showed that death had been caused by strangling with a piece of bed ticking, which also had been used to tie the head to the feet. WANT ANOTHER CONFERENCE Washington, Dec. 23. (By the Asso ciated Press) Suggestion has been made by the , Italian arms delegation to the naval committee o f the confer ence that another international gather ing of broader scope be called scfcn af ter the adjournment of the presenf dis cussions to deal particularly with sub marines and auxiliary craft. TtlNSETTLEP Charlotte and Vicinity: Unsettled and warmer tonight and Saturday with probably occasional rains. Moderate sQuth to southwest winds. North and South Carolina: Unsettled weather tonight and Saturday, probably rain; warmer tonight and in east portion Saturday POSSIBLY' ADVANTAGEOUS. London, Dec. 23. (By the Associated Press) The adjournment of the Dail Eireann and the delay in a vote on the Anglo-Irish treaty is editorially commented on today by The Evening Standard as possibly advantageous to the supporters of the treaty and at any rate not unwelcome to the ratification ists. The newspaper expresses the opinion that the passage of time is likely to weaken "the intellectual case" for the rejection of the treaty and particularly to undermine the po sition of Eamonn de Valera. The Pall Mall Gazette and Globe, in its comment, says ' that, since Mr. de Valera opposed the adjournment, we may perhaps assume that the vote of 77 to 'A, with whih it was carried, is a rough index of the ratio of strength between himself and his opponents. RADICAL DELEGATES GATHER IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 23. ITnlftcatlon of all revolutionary elements in the ranks of America's workers was contemplatr:! by radical delegates gathered here to day for a convention called for tha announced purpose of organizing "the Workers' Party of America." It wa semiofficially declared these element might be defined as "thoue accepting the leadership of the third( communist' internationale in the straggle to estab lish an America's workers' republic." It was expected that representatives of these foreign organizations wcul.I be present during the convention, which will close Monday: The American Labor Alliance, the Workers' Council of the United States of America, the Jewi-!'-! Socialist Federation, the German Work ers' Educational Society, the Finnish Socialist Federation, the Jewish Work ers' Federation, the Scandinavian So cialist Federation, the Greek Socialist L'nion, the Irish-American Labor i .eaarue. the Hungarian Workers' , FeS eation and the Italian Workers' Federation. INCREASED IMPORT DUTIES ARE SOUGHT Washington Dec. 23. Increased im port duties on motion picture films, sensitized but not exposed, was urged before the Senate Finance Committea today by Charles II. Cole, of Boston, speaking for the Bay State Films' Com pany. Boston; the Eastman Kodak; Company, the Ansco Company, and the Powers Film' Products Company, all of, Rochester, K. T. The witness said for eign competition, largely German, al ready had resulted in the closing of two of the five filmmaking factories; in the country - ' -J, r... i
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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