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DELEGATES OF mm TREATY THIS LISflE "i : . ' . " ' . " " "" " ''' '".V , --"-. 1 i . . ' Sisnatures Affixed in , Ante - Room of Secretary of ' s , State' Office RESERVATION IS MADE. BY U. S. DELEGATES Yap Question Have To Be Dis ; posed of With japan Be- , fore ' Signing Up y ''"j '(By -Associated;. Press).; WASHINGTON Dec.' 18. The new treaty to preserve peace in the Pacific was formerly signed .'. today' by the quadruple to presrve peace in the Pacific was formally signed today by the 'plenipotentiaries of - the United States,' Great Britain, , France and Japan. : . . The signatures were affixed' in the room of the office of the Secretary of Stste. There was-no formal ceremony e . J 'no one- was present except the iariea. their.. Secretaries , - '. - ... ,. and advisors. - The American delegates, the first t osi?n under, . an alphabetical ar j 'r7Tient of. the powers, put -their Damps, to the document and affixed their seals' a few -minutes after 11 The approval of -the ..United States wao civen. however", subject to a Written understanding -with the Jap ar.tse, .fcroviding that the Japanese American treaty regarding Tap must be arranged before the four-power agreement is Dinmng. , ' Except for this reservation, which is expected to be erased within a few days by the signature of - the 'Yap treaty, the new Pacific agreement re quires only parliamentary ratification by the various government to make it effective. - The American official copy of the document now ' goes to the White House for- transmission by President Hardin to the senate. The New Pact, it was generally believed, would be forwarded to the senate within short time. ., ' m IaFollete to Fight It : (By Associated Press). WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Decl4r ing that the new four-power ; Pacific treaty had "all of the iniquities of the League of Nations, with hone of' the firtues claimed for that document," Senator LaFollete, ' republican, Wis consin, .announced that he was pre pared to do "all In my power to pre vent its ratification." '. "..'' tBy,Afl80clated Press) -v WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The A inerican reservation attached to . the , four-power treaty . when It was signed today contained a provision 'that do mestic questions of the various pow ers are not" to be considered, within thfi ncone of the treaty. , The' reservation is in two' parts, the' first of which declarf i the treaty shall not' be binding as regards the, policy of ihe. United States irt regard to the mandates in the Pacific. v - HILL ASMi ! JURY TO IIICT UELABBOTT LaGrange Bank Cashier Is Al ' leed To. Haver Embezzled r " - f r- , Bank's Funds ; ' -' (By Associated Presr). BELFAST,. Dec. 13.- Pvime Min ter Lloyd' George has informed ir James Craig, the Ulster premier, that in view of Sir James' statement in the . Ulster parliament yesterday- on the correspondence' regarding . the Irish conference, he 'Proposes to pub lish", the correspondence Immediately BANDITS HOLD UP BANK IN v f MICHIGAN AND GET $13,000 ; MX, CLEMONS, ;Mlch., Dec. 13. Two armed bandit today held up the Half Way, State Bank", at Half Way, 'near here, and escaped With cash es timated at :tl8,OO0w The bandits ffed in an automobile, heading for . De troit. '. - The wonder' of. the moment is what p7.c slippers dad wears,- -- .: S Came from Far, HprUi (By Associated "Press). NOME, Alaska, Dec. 13. An Artie adventurer, B. D. Seaman, sailed into Nome from the frozen north this month and,, not knowing that the war was over, tried ' to enlist in the American army so he couTd fight in France. - ' . . ' - . 1 ' Seaman said he had . been three. years getting to Nome from the Cor onation Gulf 'country, which lies far east on ' Canada's Artie , coast, during his journey had received ' no news fro m the outside world. He left the gulf, he declared, in October ,1918, when he ilrst heard the United States, had entered - the war. ..- Seamon was formely' a member of - the . Royal Northwest Counted j Police. . . . - Son after . . Seamaft .. starteod. . for Nome the small schooner- on which he Was journeying was' -t wrecked in the ice,, he said, and he and his .com panions were forced to ; walk twenty seven days before they t came - to an Eskimo village. On their way they ived on roots. " v vY Nassef Manufacturing Co. Has Splendidly Equipped ;"t? Plant' Here New Bern's newest manufacturing enterprise, the Nassef Manufacturing company, wizi oegin operation witnin the next three -weeks, according to ( announcement made this morning.-; The factory, which will engage Jntthe t - manufacture, of ; ' overalls, bhirts, breeches, , etc.,- and which Is located on Pasteur street, opposite the Union station, will employ fifty girls as op erators. 0 . . : ' '. ... . - The working-quarters, are -ideal. They are. located on the second floor NEW FACTORY G TO OPEM SOON . I and are unusuauy wen ngmea. j.ne(the colored dolls . indulge : in a song building is a new 'one,- having just;and dance. The. baby' dolls taken on been constructed, .' and everything : about it., is clean ; and freshly paint eel. It is doubtful whether there is a more attractive small factory in the state, The front half of the building is i devoted, to offices, tutting room and I ladies' .dressing room, in tne )rear, , occupying a. space, of bO by ilteet, is: The leading parts will be taken by. the operating room. There are- 35 fc Joiln-, Faulkner, , James Hill, Louis regular sewing machines and 10 spec-; Angell, v Annio Btook's and Herbert ial ones, all of th.em being? pperatfd v Caxroy, The-. - beatb are Charles' Mc electrically; The shipping room is Daniel, "Charles Styront Jack Atkin located on the mam floor and is con-. son Nat"'Dixon,' Melvin Hawkins and nected by an elevator with ther second Norwood Rhodes.' The baby dolls are floor. ' , n - ."' Geraldine Wood, -Dorothy 'Mattocks, iir. wassei- siaiea mis - morning that the work of-instructing girls the operation of the machines would ( begin next week. Te believes that a large number . of girls in ..New Bern will wlcome this, opportunity td se cure pleasant work at good pay and requests all those interested to' see him at The Leader store. The machines and other equipment in the factory is being Installed bj( Arthur' Billington, of the .tawrence M. Sein Company; Chicago, .and is of the latest adh most improved design. Frank Miller, of Baltimore, will-be in active charge of operations at ' the factory. , - : ' " .,.. AKIVl "ULLtUA 1 13 WILL, ; ' MEET THIS AFTERNOON WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. A meet ing of the American arms delegates was called for 2:30 o'clock today, pre sumably for consideration of the na,- val program. 1 ; ' URGE PUBLIC TO 0 Red -Cross Christmas Seals Are Now On Sale At Several , Local Stores The Anti-Tuberculosis Society has on sale at the 'drug stores and at Whitehurst's store a supply of Christ mas ; seals. The proceeds from . the sale of these seals will be used in the crusade against tuberculosis; three fourths locally and one-ftmrth In the state. '-" . -" - -' - ' The' public is asked to use the seals and in this way to aid in' the crusade against the Great White Plague. It is- hoped that New Bern will surpass her record of last year: - . . People who buy oil stock Invest ami thep investigate,. LIS . .. . . Seaman gave an interesting de scription of the life of theE skimos of Coronation Gulf. The natives, he said, s-ill use tne DOW and arrow DUt are gradually getting accustomed - to the use of firearms.- which were in troduc edpeccntly. The: natives live on caribou, and sea.' , . .. . A rifle in the Coronation, country sells for . $100. cartridges for thirty cents each, sugar is $1 a pound, but ter $3.80(.a pound and milk $1 a can, Seaman "said. The cost of clothing; however, . lower,- a "parka" cape Jbeing so" for $4, muckluks, or na tive ehoes, for' CO (cents .a- pair, and fine fur mittens f or three boxes of one,-oejt., matches. ... . Mounted police in thv Coronation country : f.',t;t email sometimes-.-three years (?. V. Once, before he left, a con stable ,i,:ot quick- service on a letter, a 1 oinrj rl, td from. England in thirteen months. . : Se.xmdn said he f.prohably woold go ''back to Coronation Gulf, -'"whore a big pot of trouble like a world war rtocsn't reach u untii it is all )v.r.'' MM ILL STAGE PLAYLET Interesting Attraction, To, Be Put "on 1 by Pupils of the , ; i : - Grammar Grades - 'The Dolls'. Symposium',"1, a beauti- -ful' playlet, wfll be rendered in the Griffin auditorium- next Monday night . Q,lHitm.in at .o'clock. About fifty of the pupils in tire-lower grades will take jart in the ; presentation, mostly from the third and fourth grades. - . - - The scene represents the toy: store Of Santa Claus. At midnight the dolls all come to life and decide' to do as they please for one hour. They have a drill , by the rag-doll brigade : and a setting-up exercise, while the bisque dolls pose and the sailor doll3 dance merrily. , Jaclc-in-the-Boic .nd Jack-the-Ro ver preside over the stunts; Dorothy, the owner.' is awakened hv the tioise and wlien ahe COmes in they all join n Ejnging Christmas -: songs. , Louise SwaIlli , Josephine Stanlard, Thersa ' Capio and Lavohne Taylor, Thp PT,tftrtinment will he. a", de- lightful one and the public is invited to attend, v . . - " A. C. L. TRAIN WRECKED ; NO FATALITIES OCCyR ;. " (By Ass6ciated Press). CHARLESTON, C, Dec. 13. No fatalities resulted from a derail ment nf novprnl fEir rf .A f"? T. . trJlilj No . .-9 15 miie3 south of here last night. Two passengers are re-- . ported' as injured, but not seriously. A. C. L. trains southhound are de- ' touring over the SeaBoard Air- Line temporarily. A wrecking crew is now Clearing the A. C. L. ASKS BLESSINGS UPON THE DAIL EIREANN (By Associated Press). DUBLIN, Dec. 13. The Irish bis hop, after a meeting presided over by Cardinal Loge, to consider their attitude as to the Anglo-Irish agree ment issued a statement this after noon of a non-commital character. It implored the divine blessing upon the Dail Eiran and said that body would be sure to have the best interests of that country at heart. ABSCONDING CASHIER GETS HEAVY SENTENCE (By Associated Press) COCHRAN. Ga., Dec. 13. Plead ing guilty last night in superior court here to four, counts charging embez zlement and three charging felony U. H. Patrick, former cashier of the Citizen Bank of Cochran, who was convicted December 6 of . embezzle ment of 7 000 from the bank, was given : sentences ranging from 22 to 38 years. -. . .- Patrick left this morning in the custody of officers for Atlanta, where he will appear before ' the state pri son commission and be . assigned ' to the fetate penitentiary.. . ( . . SLURS THE f CEREMONY OVER UNKNOWN, DEAD .NEVjYORJ-C, Dec. 13. This af ternoon in an adrtrees at the Hip podrome, and in c6pies of that ad dress sent to the press, Judge Rutherford, whp preaches the second coming of-the Messiah and the end oC the world soon, chose to slur a- t-ers'jnony which the greatest mon in ttis country v and in oih'v oountri:: saw fit to hn or'wtih their resti'i-.ce, anil to in: ticipate in With cerise of hav.ng been hisrh'.y lfinoi ed rthe bnriil otj.ho' unknown- soldier at Arling ton on Araista!"e,I.ay. "The tide of unrest rises high er and higher. The unholy alli ance," as J udge Rutherford char acterized commerce, politics and the church," concludes something muk be done. To keep the minds of the people from' their troub es, they stae a celebration in honor 'of somejiinknown' dead. They sel ect tIsbody of; some dead person. No on knows vho. it ds. For all the people know, -. he ' may have died with a .bullet through his back or a rope' about his- neck. - - Pitt Cpunty Men, Were u Hurt When ''Car Tinned Turtle Near Vanceboro . GREENV:iLLE N.r C... Dec. 13. John Matthews . aiid his ..eighteen-year-old "'Son-'hAd a narrow ,, escape from death yesterday afternoon in at tempting to pass a car driven by Sheriff Dudley "three miles this side of Tarbbro vwhen the car In .which they were Tiding turned turtle sev eral times .and came to a standstill With both father and son pinned be neah. They were picked up - a few minutes later in an unconscious con 3ition. The full extent of their' in juries had not been determined at an early hour today. lident as told by Sheriff Dudley this , According to the story of the acci dent as told by Sheriff Dudley yes terday, it is considered almost rs markable. how the two men escaped without' serious injury or death. They weer going 'at a high rate of i speed When thy attempted to pass the') Sheriff ' ,. car, in fact, at such great velocity that - the car was completely demolished by ' the ' -impact. ..When they i saw the car ahead pould not be passed safely, they attempted. to turn back into the road and the car swer ved and rolled over sideways two or three-times before coming to a stop. The ' sheriff drove on some distance before observing . what happened. He returned aid found both men in an unconscious condition and the father evidently dead. They were rushed home immediately and as the older Matthews was beink lifted from the car he regained consciousness. 0; y.p. WEE THIS EVENING Entertaining Program ..Is To Be Put on. New Officers Will Be Elected An entertaining, meting of the B. Y. P. U., of the First Baptist Church is promised tonight when the organ ization will elect new officers for'the ensuing year and attend to other mat ters of ' importance which will be brought up. A special program has been ar ranged, which will be in charge of Group "P," John Lane, Capt. It is urgently hoped that every member will .make an .effort to be present and a eordial invitation is extended to all others to attend. PREDICT ENACTMENT 1 OF THE BONUS BILL INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. .13. Enact ment of the veterans adjusted com pensation bill will be completed by congress within 90 days, according to information given Hanford Mac Sneider, national commander of the American Legion, by Senator Mc Cumber, author of the bill in the senate, and Representative Fordney, of Michigan. Commander McSneider wired Lemuel Bowles, national ad jutant of the legion this afternoon. .Why call them new resolutions, whenthey are old ones made ow.-r. S MB TH IEVES T1LLLRY Took 3300 Cases of Whiskey From Canton Company at Baltimore SIXTEEN OF GANG HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ver Three Hundred Prohibi tion Agents . Lying In Wait v on the Highways k PHILADELPHIA. Doc. 13. Prohi bition agents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland; and New I Yor have been combing the high ways leading from Baltimore for au-. tomobilo trucks carrying -3300 cases Of liquor seized by a daring bootleg gers, gang in a raid by them on the warehouse of the Canton Distilleries in Baltimore last, Saturday iight. - One (ruck, containing 263 : caseaT was t-eized some-hours later, : on - a road leading from Baltimore to Wash ington. X . . - i - According , to 'Associato Prohibition Director Rutter, of Pennsylvania, - the raid is the result of a bootleggers con- vention held in Balti-more last week. Firty-fiye .'hundred caces of whiskey had ' beftrv taken from the warehouse of' thdAdl-stillery at 1'ourth avenue and Clinton street, Baltimore, and loaded on motor trucks when the police of a nearby district, who were answering a riot' call.: frustrated the "'robbery , of IS 0,0 Qav quarts more, of the 4iquxrv . .vThxee trucks loaded with the 3300 cases of : whiskey, had left the ware house -when -Hie police arrived.. Word was immediately sent to Washington by Prohibition .Director Budnitz, of Baltimore, and as a result hurried telephone calls were sent "out from Washington by Acting Chief of Gen eral Agents L. G. Nutt to prohibition headquarters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Maryland and New York, . instructing directors in these state to "rush agents -tp- the highways leading from Baltimore ! in the hope that the daring perpetrators of the raid, might be apprehended.' EIONITES 0 El COLON? Over One Thousand Settle To day in Alabama, Coming From Canada' x YELLOW PINE, Ala., Dec. 13-. Onp, thousand Mennonites, occupying 18 cars, arrived here today from Re gina, Sasketchewan. The colonists broughf with them , cows, horses, sheep, household effects, vehicles and farming implements, and they are prepared to immediately start house- keeping and preparation of soil for biext year's crop. An advanced guard W- - i 1 1 j ,1 naiArin nad purcnasea ianu aim viunucu temporary shelter. J The colony is situated in the heart of the Alabama lumber Welt. TOAST 'TO THE KING", IS BANNED IN ULSTER LONDON, Dec. 13. Dispatches from Belfast say the feeling is now so acute in the northern capital thats the "Toast to the King" and the Ringing of the national anthem have been dis pensed with at most public functions. The reason given is that Ulster in terprets the British government's at titude as meaning that no financial concessions are' to be given to Ul ster. There was considerable shooting at Belfast Saturday night, chiefly in the Sinn Fein quarters. Constable Tracy w-.s wounded and it is reported one man was killed. The downfall of Eamon de Valera and the ascension of Arthur Griffith or MicWael Collins to leadership in the new Irih Free State government seemed possible today. The issue will be decided at the meeting of the Dail Eireann in Dublin Wednesday. Collins will appeal personally to the Irish Parliament for ratification of the Anglo-Irish treaty signed by him and Griffith in London. It seems cer tain his plea wiy be successful. .The largest batch of mail from Ireland that ever was dispatched to America embarked for New York to day' on the Scythia, of the Cunard line, out of Queenstown. The consignment consisted of 619 sacks of mail. Wouldn't, it made what w be grand if we claim we do? all OUM HE A DIS ON STORK VISITS SHIP WITH USUAL RESULT NEW YORK, Dec. 13. The itory of the stork heretofore -has Seen a" legend, but this is a true ?tory. .Captain Jonas Pendelbury, f the steamship Centennial State which arrived at Hoboken re ;ent!y from London, attests its (. . .veracity., '. : - Outward-bound from London on November 30, the Centennial State anchored in; a. fog -off the Downs. A stork, migrating South From Holland, and evidently lost in the mist, algihted forward and flew' into the forecastle. The- ship s carpenter tried -to capture the bird and it flew out of an open port; ... The stork was still in sight, cir cling about the ship, when there came a "hurry call 'from the first cabin for the ship's doctor, who soon announced the arrival on board of a baby girl, born to Mrs. James Ras'ey, vfife of an English actor, coming to play . with Nora Bayes. .He was leading man in "A Leagne of Notions" in London. Waives Preliminary "Hearing And Is Placed UnderBond of J50.000 . v (By. Associated Press). WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Charles W. Morse, whose transactions witl the shipping board are under feder al investigation, was arraigned here foday..beforev U..-S-. Commissioners I R. Hitt, on a warrant charging' con cpiracy to defraud the United States The warrant was served iln Mr Hitfs office by U. S. Deputy Marshal; Field. Mr. Morse pleaded not guil ty, waived a hearing and was re leased under a $50,000 bond. EASTLAKE' TRIAL IS BROUGHT UP TODAY (By Associated Press) V MONTROSE, Va., Dec. 13. Roger D. Eastlake, naval petty offlcer,-a8 placed on trial in the Westmoreland circuit court )here today, charged with, the murder of , his wife, whose mutilated' body was found Septembei 30 at "their home at Colonial Beach Va. - - ' FRENCH DELEGATION PLANNING TO LEAVE WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 Rene Vi viani, former premier of France, anc head of his nation's delegation a the armamept conference since th departure of Premeir Brian'd. made plans today to sail for home Wednes day on the steamship : Paris witr- Madame Viviani and several other members or : the French delegation JAPAN SENDING FRESH. x TROOPS INTO SIBERIA .TOKIO, Dec. 13. Japan is replac ing the troops in the martime prov inces of Siberia with fresh conting ents. This action, it is said is taken ir view of the failure of the conference between Japanese and representative? of the Chita, or Far Eastern repub- Hc, to reach an' agreement. The Foreign official says the situa tion in- Siberia is unsettled, compel! ing the retention of troops at their present stations. , , , J Focta, Sails on Monday NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Marshal Foch will reach here late today to say I farewell' to the metropolis and to the ! United States. He .sails Monday, for France. ' . ' One Man Killed, Another In jured, And Passengers Badly Shaken up (By Associated Press). FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Dec. 13. Alma Tilchrist, of Wagram, N. G., was instantly killed and Firema,n Mangin was injured at 11 o'clock this morning, when train No 64, of the At lantic Coast Line Railroad strucjt the. car in vhich Tilchrist was riding about a mile from Red Springs. The engine ofthe train was derailed and two coaches were partially wrecked. The passengers were badly shaken up but no srious injuries occurred to any of them. The automobile was a complete wreck. The fireman's in juries were not "serious, V CHA5; HOUSE IS AMAIGNEO iAUTO DERAILS I A. G. L TRAIN i ' DEFICIT BILL PASSES OH 21 ; READING TODAY : IN THE SENATE Bill Requiring publication of Petitions For Refund of Taxes I3: Withdrawn MRS. DANIELS SPEAKS -I BEFQRE STATE SENATE Makes , Address Opposing Re peal of the' Primary Law In State " ( By MAX ABERNETHY . : (Via Associated Press). RALEIGH, Deo. IS. The $710,- 000 school deficit' bill , passed the second reading in the senate today without ' opposition or discussion, but he Everett resolution, calling oil the lepartment of revenue and education !or information about tax ratea and lorizontlal cuts in values came from he. committee with an unfavorable eport and no effort was made to re- ive it. ' , . . . After passing its " second reading Monday night, the Elmore Long bill. equiring publication' of all petitions or refund of taxes by the commis lioner of revenue and the board ot iqualizatlon was on Tuesday- with IraWn from the calendar and sent to oint judiciary ? comnlittee - for. con siderations It .is ..predicted" that , t.he . .ill will, not again reach the floor of he senate. - . - . . . The primary repeal bill' came to he house on art unfavorable commit ee report but revived-oh a minority eport. The committee heard the bill .his morning when - Mrs. .Josephus Daniels and Mrs. , Palmer German poke against repeat of the primary. Fisher of Transylvania introduced i bill to request the Interstate Com merce Commission to begin, revision )f freight and passenger rates In N. Carolina by at least 15 per cent. The bill calling for a constitutional onventiort In 1923 wan introduced in. he senate this morning? by Senator Itubbs. ' Senator StubbB asked post ponement1 this morning because .of ibsence of large numbers-of member Xom the senate. ' . WANT CUBAN SUGAR , BE REFINED HERE . (By Associated Press) : " , WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.- A'mea ure has been prepared for Introduc ion in congress to allow the refine ient of 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar n bond in U. S. refineries tor, shlp lent ,to export without payment J ot ariff duties. --..i ;- -.-. SIGHT PERSONS DIE IN FIRE AT DETROIT DETROIT, Dec. 13. Eight per ons were burned to death in a fire hat destroyed 'their boarding house n a suburb early today. Three others,' i woman and two children,-were bad y injured' and were taken to a hos1 pital where Itw.as said their chances 'or recovery were slight-. . ' ' ; f 1 CO-OPERATIVE Joint Congressional Cornmis sion to Advocate Legisla- ' tion to That Effect "'''' WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Legisla tion to legalize cooperative' combina tion of farmers for marketing and distribution of their products and provide for agricultural attaches at American consulates in foreign coun tries will be recommended v by the joint commission of agriculture in quiry according to Chairman Ander son, who announced today: that part o the commissioner's report would. ' be made publis soon. The report, hej says, also will stress the-, need for more adequate wholesale terminal fa cilities. The commission, which was to have made a final report "by the first of the year, has asked consent from Congress to submit the- last of its findings by April 15. , It's easy, to catch a man with wn2s key, if you have the whiskey, Will MARKET PLAN ,4 is ? 1 ' :..v. " 5.1 j.
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