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AUGUSTA, MAINE, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1921.
PRICE THREE CENTS
ESTABLISHED 1825
JAPANESE EMPEROR NAMES
CROWN PRINCE REGENT OF
NATION-DUE TO ILL-HEALTH
—■■ -» -__
yoshihito's Mental Condition
Makes Retirement Advisable
—Nippon’s New Leader Only
20 Years Old—Broke Tradi
tions by Touring Europe—Is
a Modernist in Every Sense
Tokio, Nov. 2r—(By A. ^P.)—
Crown Prince Hirohito has been
designated regent of Japan. An Im
perial rescript making the announce
ment was issued by Kmperor Yos
bihito yesterday afternoon. It said:
-We are unable to attend in per
son to the affairs of state, on account
in person to the affairs of state, on
amount of protracted illness, and ac
cordingly appoint Crown Prince
Hirohito regent with the approval of
th» council of princes, the imperial
family and the privy councillors." -y
It hears the imperial signature and
that of the crown prince and is
signed also by Baron Makino, minis
ter of the imperial household Pre
mier Takahashi and the cabinet
ministers.
Simultaneously a bulletin was is
sued stating that the eniporer's men
tal condition was such as to preclude
his further attention to state duties,
tracahle to an afflication of his in
(Coulinued on Page 9—Col. 7)
2200 Women
Police Reserves
Given Traffic Duty
»«• York, Nov. 25.—Twenty-two
hundred women, members ot the New
York Police Reserves, were polishing
tip their unused shields and brushing
the lint off brand new uniforms in
anticipation of iheir first tour of dulj.
Rodman Wa namaker, special deputy
police commissioner in charge of re
serves, issued a call for the 2200 late
today, directing them to report next
Monday for duty as traffic ufficers.
The order said they would have charge
of all street intersections adjacent to
public school buildings in the city's
live boroughs.
Th» ntilk strike, which necessitated ,
detailing of j'jmj guards to milk wag- j
ens anti plants of distributing cor
porations. gave the women a chance
to make their dehut. Commissioner
tVannmaker said they would be em
ployed actively until the milk strike
has ended.
BELIEVE FIRE BUGS
WORKING DISTRICT
ABOUT OLD ORCHARD
Old Orchard, Nov. 25—A fire believ
ed to have been of incendiary origin
destroyed the large barn on the old
Elmer Googins place, now owned by
J. H. Cameron, at the corner of P,oss
road anti Portland avenue this morn
ing at 3:30, causing a loss on build
ing and contents estimated at $12,000.
William Stanley, a gypsy of the fa
mous Stanley family, occupied the
farm house situated some 25 feet
from the barn. This was saved by
the neighbors and firemen. In the
barn were trucks, a caravan and oth
er property owned by Mr. Stanley,
and valued at $11,000 by ihe owner.
Some 30 hens were burned to death.
When the fire was discovered by Mr.
Stanley it was beyond control and his
cries of fire aroused the neighbors
who rendered all assistance possible
in saving the farmhouse until the
firemen arrived.
It is believed that this Incendiary or
some other set fire to a shed of the
unoccupied house at the corner of
Portland avenue and Blue Point road
a short time ago. Mrs. Fowler, wife
of Policeman W. S. Fowler, chanced
to look out of the window about 5
o’clock and saw a fire on the roof or
the shed. Site ran across the road
and discovered that some one had
tueked paper under the dry shingles
and set it afire, but for the timely
discovery of the fire the set of build
ings, which are owned by Mrs. Paine
of Portland, would have been destroy
ed.
Court Appeal by
Cambridge Teachers
For Increase in Wages
Cambridge Mass., Nov. I'o—A com
mittee representing the school teach
ers of this oitv appealed to the su
preme court today to compel the city
to expend 08,000 for increasing teach
ers' salaries. This amount remains
unexpended from monies authorized
for the purpose under a special legis
lative act. it is contended. The peti
tion. which asks for a writ of man
damus names Mayor Quinn, the city
solicitor, the city treasurer and all
members of the school hoard as re
spondents.
TH E U N IVFR S AX-C'A'B
“Do Not Put Off Until:
Tomorrow That Which You
Can Do Today”
“Procrastination Is
The Thief Of Time”
These and similar quotations aptly tell the
person who has real use for a Ford Car the
action that should be his.
We have several used cars in fair condition
which we consider bargains at
$140.00 to $310.00
Capital City Motor Co.
AUGUSTA
Nor cross Motor Sales
WINTHROP
BRIAND’S SPEECH!
INTENDED FOR:
ERRS OF FRANCE
Agreement to Disarm
ament Would Have
Ended His Power
French Premier’s Talk No
Cause for Pessimism—Was
Really A Concession by the
Conference—Balfour’s Reply
Diplomatic—Hughes the Big
gest Asset for Success
(By MARK SULLIVAN’
National Political Correspondon* of the
Now York Evening Post)
Washington, Nov, 23—Probably
persons close to the situation fall into
a. state of minri where they take for
granted things that the more distant
public does not see so clearly. Few
of us in Washington—at least few of.
the Americans who are disinterested i
—share the pessimism which seems
to have colored public discussion of
the disarmament conference during
the last day or two. This pessimism
seems to have started with Briand's
speech on noon Tuesday. Properly
understood, Briand's speech is not a
cause for pessimism. More truly it
is a cause for optimism iii that it was
a final expression of a spirit of com
promise within the conference.
To understand Rriands speech you
[must understand that lie was talking
primarily for France to hear rather
than for the conference. Briand is
premier of France and his hold on
that office is precarious. In France,
they have a practice difficult for
Americans to understand. In France,
when a premier does or says some
thing unpopular, he goes out of of
| fire, automatically. For example, if
Ihe letter that President Harding
wrote to Congress asking for lower
(Continued on Page 10—Col. 6)
No Irish Peace
Unless Sinn Fein
Recognizes King
London, Xov. "5—(By A. T\>—
What is feared to he the last scene
in the effort to brine peace to Ireland
was enacted today when Prime .Min
ister Lloyd George and Sir .lames
Craig met in the former's official
residence in Downing street, where
the imperial premier told the head
of the Northern government that
Sinn Fein Ireland had not consented
to own allegiance to the king, a pre
requisite to T'lster's agreement to
enter an all-Ireland parliament.
The Sinn Fein delegates are eon
stilting with members of the Dail
cabinet in Dublin on the crisis thus
brought about while Sir .Tames pack
ed his bag anil returned to Belfast,
where he will report to his parlia
ment next Tuesday and possibly dis
close the cause of the virtual break
down of the Irish negotiations. The
official correspondence that has pass
ed between the various delegations
also may l»e published at the same
time in London.
Week-end efforts, meanwhile, will
be made by peaee makers in an at
tempt to persuade the Sinn Fein to
modify its attitude on the question
of allegiance to the king. The Dail
Kireann members have taken the
oath of allegiance to the Irish rcptib
' lie, and thus far they have refused
to substitute for it recognition, with
in Ireland, of King George. The
furthest concession from the Sinn
l'einrrs has been their willingness to
recognize the king as the formal
president of the community of free
nations which Ireland might choose
voluntarily 10 join, but even this was
not definitely promised.
Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and
Attorney General Hew art. law officers
of the Crown, have ransacked tb*
constitutions of all ibe British domin
ions to find any precedent for tiie
only kind'of relationship with the
British Crown thgt Sinn Fein will
consider, but nothing can be found,
and the Kvcning News, the first Lon
don newspaper 1n indicate the real
cause of the crisis, suggests that the |
relations of Bavaria with Prussia in
the German empire might furnish
such a precedent.
But Mr. Lloyd George, it is under- j
stood, would not admit of any ar- ■
rangement which would leave Ire- I
land's allegiance to the Crown in any :
doubt, and the government would
support I'Istcr in refusing any as- '
sneiation which would weaken its *
British citizenship.
The only prospect for peace now Is
said to rest on the Sinn Fein's con
ceding allegiance to the Crown and
the influence of the advocates of j
moderation has been invoked in a
final effort to change its position.
The question is being put as to i
whether the point is worth renewed .
warfare, for a breakdown of,the ne- j
gotiations on that issue, it • is be- i
lieved, would be followed, either be
fore or after tbe general election, by
tlie handing of Ireland to military
rule and the displacement of ihe
civilian officials In Dublin Castle, to
whose infience is attributed the pre
vious failure of military measures.
All along the Sinn Fein delegates !
have held the belief that, no matter j
what the result of the negotiations j
might be, tbe British puhlic would j
oppose the employment of the rrfi 1 i- I
tarv; and in this they have the sup- j
port of former Premier Asquith, who
at a meeting Of the Liberal Federa
tion today said the Liberal party bad
rot brooded from any pledge given 1
against the forcible coercion of the j
Ulster minority. At the same time
lie asked all Liberals to assent to tlie
proposition that It was equally true
that the;.' were not going to be party
at the instance or for the same of a
corner of Ulster, to coercion of the
great mass of Irish people,
CRIPPLES RUSH
HOSPITAL DOORS
IMPLORING AID
Seek Relief at Hands:
of Famous Austrian
Surgeon
Dr. Lorenz Shocked at Prevel
ance Spinal Diseases—May
Give Rest of Life to Aiding
Sufferers—Offered Complete
Hospital in New York City
I
New York, Nov. 25—Misery so |
poignant and so widespread.greeted j
Dr. Adolph Lorenz, famous Austrian
orthopedic surgeon, on the steps and j
in the halls of the hospital for joint
diseases today lhat he said he had (
almost decided to devote the remain- ,
der of his days to allev iating the suf- !
tarings of America's cripples.
Dr. Lorenz said at the end of his
first "gratitude" clinic that never in
all his career had he been affected
as he was by the sight of hundreds
of maimed, distorted humans, clam
oring for his aid. And hevor, he
added, had he seen a land so sorely
in need of relief from spinal and
other troubles superinduced by an
fantile paralysis.
His observation so-- far, he de
clared, led him to believe there were
"ten or fifteen times as many” such
sufferers in the I’nited States as in
any other country in the world. He
was appalled, he said, at what he
had found since coming here to repay
some part of America's bounty to
starving Austrian children.
Whether lie will accept a 20-room
hospital in Brooklvn which M. (I.
Collins, gn od man, has offered to
equip and to endow' with the pro
ceeds of a $000,000 fund, or will ac
cept an invitation to be consulting
surgeon at the. hospital for joint dis
eases is yet to he decided, according
to Dr. Lorenz's assistant. Dr. C. Wey
ina n.
The question of when he will make
a proposed tour of other cities also
is undetermined. So many cripples
are clamoring for his aid here that
Dr. Lorenz is unwilling to leave, Dr.
Weyman said.
Alter working like mad more than
five hours. Dr. Lorenz had seen 125
cripples—scarcely one-tenth, of the
supplicants for aid who crpwded, the
hospital anil the streets outside, com
ing en crutches, in wheel chairs and
— some of the more fortunate—In au
tomobiles.
• And during those busy five hours,
lie said afterwards he had advised
enough operations to keep one sur
geon busy for six months.
Police reserves had to be called to
handlp the crowds outside. Every
time that Dr. I.orenz appeared in the
corridors, darting frpm one room to
another, where more patients had
been disposed for him, there was a
clatter of crutches and canes on'the
marble floor as the eager crowd
surged forward in piteous effort to
attract his attention. Some wept
wlmn attendants pressed them back
as they saw the tall patriarchal fig
ure of the doctor disappear behind a
closed door.
Long before he had torn himself
away to rush to Morris Plains. X. .1.,
for a lector^ and clinical demonstra
tion at the New' Jersey State hos
pital, wistful eyed men and women
on crutches and others carrying
crippled children lingered in the
street outside, hoping against, 'hope
that the doctor would come hack.
Dr. Lorenz’ told the hosf>ital auth
orities he would gladly continue daily
clinics as long as there were appli
cants. It was his contribution, he
said, to help repay the debt Austria
owed America for the aid she has
given starving Austrians.
When there was talk of raising a
great fund to endow- a hospital in
which he could carry on his work,
lie said: “Could not some little bit of
it he given to my little Viennese chil
dren? It would be only fair."
Street Care Fare
Cut in Chicago
Halted by Court
Chicago, Nov. •2.".,—Surface <ar rid
ers hero today paid the same old eight
cont faro, although the Illinois Com
merce Commission ordered the rate re
duced to fi\e corns. A restraining or
der was signed yesterday by Fod»ra!
Judge George A. Carpenter, thus tem
porarily keeping in for<;e the old fare.
The petition of xjf surface lines \
stated that an immediate reduction of ,
fare—originally ordered lor 12.01 A.
M. today—would result in ‘•immediate!
and irreparable injury and loss and
damage.” |
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mtlftdtf ——
NO ILLITERACY
IN MAINE AT END
OFiflVE YEARS
Supt. of Schools Thom
as Outlines Plan to
Abolish Ignorance
State Has 20,240 Illiterates—
Would Educate 5,000 Each
Year—Estimated That Over
A Million In East Cannot
Read or Write—Night School
Help Solve Problems
New York, Nov. 25—Illiteracy was j
classed as a national problem in- j
voicing: governmental responsibility j
by Dr. A. O. Thomas, superintendent j
of schools of Mnitie.in an address'
today at the Illiteracy conference of :
the eastern states. Kduactors from
11 states are attendg the two-day
gathering.
Maine, he said, was working out. a
plan to wipe out illiteracy in that
s’tate in five years, whereby its 20,240
illiterates would be educated at tlie
rate of 5,000 a year. He said fi defi
nite standard all over the country on
illiteracy was needed. Dr. Thomas
read statistics showing that
OOO of the country's population have
liad only an elementary education
and 8.500,000 a secondary education.
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, chair
man of the Illiteracy commission of
the National Kducational association,
estimated the illiterates in the east
ern states at 1,230,024.
Connecticut has 00,000 illiterates
over 10 years of age, Hebert Doming,
director of Americanization in that
state told the conference. It was tiie
only state where illiteracy had in
creased In the last ten yrars, hc^said,
and this was because of industrial
conditions. He urged an educational
system that would include every one
from six to <!<> if necessary.
Kmerson T„ Adams, superintendent
of education in Rhode Island, told of
the beneficial results obtained in the
night schools there, which, lie said,
were attended by a large percentage
of the children's parents.
The problem in New Hampshire,
declared Walter M. May, assistant
state commissioner of education was
being aided by the law which rc
<1 Hi red illiterates between Id and 21
years to attend night school classes.
Any town or community in 1he
slate having fifteen or more is ob
liged hv law to start a night class.
The Sterliug-Towner illiteracy hill
was criticized by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catt, woman suffrage leader,
who attacked the sincerity of politi
cians of the two big parties in deal
ing with remedial legislation on the
subject.
Mrs. Catt told the educators she
agreed with every provision of the
bill, hut that psychologically is too a
bad bill. IIs form could not be
worse, she said.
Adventists Like
Conference Plans,
They Tell Harding
Washington, Nov. 25.—A committee
appointed hy the recent annual con
vention of the Seventh Day Advent
ist church at Minneapolis, called to
day at the White House to present
to President Harding a memorial ex
pressing ihe "hearty accord" of the
denomination with the purposes of
the the armament conference.
"We are, therefore,” the memorial
said, "encouraging our people devout
ly to pray for your personal guidance
and for guidance of those assemble?!
in the conference, t > the end that fu
ture war and bloodshed raav be avert
ed."
600 Trainmen in Texas
Back on Probation
Houston, Tex., Nov. 25—Six hun
dred trainmen on the International
and Great Northern Railway, who
walked out Oct. 222. returned to work
today under orders of the Federal
court. They go on probation for 30
days. *
THE WEATHER
FAIR
New England: l-'air Saturday: Sun
day unsettled and warmer probably,
with rain.
East New York: Clortdy Saturday;
Sunday unesttled and warmer.
Boston Forecast
Roston and vicinity: Saturday fair;
Sunday unsettled and warmer, prob
ably rain; moderate shifting winds. :
General Forecast
Friday night the pressure was low
over the Canadian Maritime provinces .
and over the Mississippi Valley, the
plains states, and the northwest and t
high in the Atlantic states and the I
far Southwest. *
Disturbances of marked intensity
had their centers over New Found
land and British Columbia.
There have been r&ins and snows
in New England in the last 24 hours.:
The temperature has fallen in the
Middle Atlantic and South. Atlantic
states, and it has risen over the
great central valleys, the plains states
and the Northwest.
In New England and Middle Atlan
tic States, the weather will become
overcast Saturday and he followed by
unsettled and* warmer weather Sun
day with probably rains In New Eng
land and New York.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook, mod
erate variable and fair weather Sat
urday. i— • - ----- -
BITTER FIGHT MARKS
FORMATION OLYMPIC
ASSOCIATION IN U.S,
New York, Nov. 25.—The organiza
tion of the American Olympic Asa'n.
was effected here today at a meeting
atended by delegates from more than
forty sport governing bodies through
out the country.
After a Witter fight the constitution
for a proposed American Amateur
Athletic Federation, as approved by
Secretary of "War John \V. 'Weeks,
was withdrawn and the constitution
proposed by the. American Olympic
Committee was adopted. The vote in
favor of the Olympic Association
constitution was 53 to 20.
It wag decided, however, by a vote
of 66 to 7, that the constitution pro
posed by the Secretary of War be re
ferred to the executive committee of
the Olympic Association for consider
ation.
A ft or the adoption of the American
Olympic Association’s constitution
more than 40 sport governing: bodies
were accepted into membership, in
cluding various intercollegiate lea
gues, conferences and associations,
the Knights of Columbus, the Ama
teur Hockey I.eague and the Amer
1 iean Gymnastic 1'nion. All other na
I lional organizations which control
sports forming part of the program
! of the Olympic games are eligible for
j membership.
Officers of the new organization
were elected as follows: Presidents
Rob't. M. Thompson. AVashington, D.
C.; vice presidents, William C. Prnut.
Boston, president of the American
Athletic l'nion, Br. Graham M. Ham
mond, New A'ork, president of the
National Fencers' I.eague and John
J. McGovern, New york, representing
the I. C. A. A. A. A.; secretary,
Fred'k. AV. Ruhien. secretary of A. A.
I’.; treasurer, Julius H. Barnes, Dul
uth, representing the National Ass'n.
of Amateur Oarsmen: auditor. Her
man Ohertershussing. New York, rep
resenting the A. A. U.
The executive committee was nam
ed as follows:
Col. A. G. Mills, New A'ork: AV. C.
Front, Boston: Br. R. H. Sayre. New
A'ork: General Paltrier Pierce: Joseph
J. McCabe. Boston: Murray Hulheet.
New’ A'ork; John J. MeGovern. New
A'ork: Col. Phillips, Washington, D.
C., and S. A. Simons.
OIL EMPLOYES
ACCEPT 12°
CUT IN WAGES
Bayonne. N. J.. Nov. 2i>.— The strike
of 1500 employes of the Tidewater Oil
company, which has been in effect
here since October 15. was ended to
day on the basis of a 12 per cent, re
duction in wages agreed to by 1,000
of the strikers at a meeting held yes
terday afternoon.
The strike was called in protest
against a 24 per rent, decrease in
wages announced by the company.
London Papers
Comment on Curzon
Warning to France
London, Nov. 25—Foreign Min
ister Curzon's rema rkable address
yesterday in which he declared that
if France pursued an isolated indi
vidual policy she would not in the
loner run injure Germany and would
fail to protect herself, draws charac
teristic comment from tlie morning
newspapers.
While Lord Curzon's address was
directed primarily to the Washington
arms conference, it was clearly an
intimation to Fiance of the effect of
that countrj's attitude toward dis
armament as voiced at Washington
by Premier Briand.
Tlie Daily Chronicle, which is dose
to the government, in its political
notes, says that the government has
been obliged to take a very serious
view of the effect of Premier Braid's
Washington speech, and that the is
sues involved are now under con
sideration by the cabinet.
The Daily News says that the for
eign minister's grave utterance is en
tirely true. *
On the other hand the newspapers
which have consistently favored the
French attitude are-displeased. The
Times says the speech is remarkable
less for what was said than what was
not said, and implies that “it was a
defence and apology rather than a
clear statement of constructive pol
icy.”
The Morning Post charges Lord
Curzon with "venting his spleen on
an ally.” and thereby inviting some
dangerous retorts.
Less Employment,
Less Egg Eating
Chicago, Nov. 25.—Fifty-five cents
a dozen for cold storage eggs at VPtail
and cents wholesale, the exchange ;
quotation Wednesday, is too high, !
Russell J. Poole, city food expert,
said today in announcing an investi- ;
gation into the prices.
,‘ it' is true there are more eggs In i
storage than there were last year,”
he said. “It also Is true that owing
to unemployment and economic con
ditions the consumption is less than
Last wear.’I_—-- -
BANDITS WOUND j
PAYMASTER AND
ESCAPE WITH LOOT
Detroit, Nov. 25—Three bandits,
who this afternoon shot and probably
fatally wounded Robert Jackson, pay
master of the Detroit Glass and Mal
leable Iron company, made off with
$5,600 in currency and later abandon
ed the money in a box car on the
Aiichigan Central Railroad tracks.
The bandits escaped.
Says Conservativev
Japs Won’t Demand
British Alliance
i Detroit, Nov. 25—Cancellation of too
Anglo-Japanese Alliance would be
welcomed by Japanese conservatives
and business men it such action would
help the Washington conference in
reaching an agreement on limitation
I of armaments, according to Yuktnoii
Hoshina, a member of a group o.f Japa
nese business men. touring this coun
try and managing director of a bank
at Osaka.
Regardless of the bearing such a
proposal might have on the armament
conference, he said, it would find bill
littla opposition in Japan. He said
the radical element of Japan was re
sponsible for talk of discord between
the T'niled States and Japan.
The delegation planned to leave to
night for Hnston.
2074 A. D. Folks
Too Good to Die,
Red Cross Forecast
ew York. Nov. 25—One hundred and
fifty-three years from now, or in the
year 2074 health conditions In this
country will he so good that the aver
age person wjll live 100 tears—ac
cording to several Red Oros statisti
>cal experts. These statisticians based
their 100 years Idea on what they
called passing out performances. For
instances In 1910 In New York per
son died at an average age of 35 and
in 1920 they shuffled along into the
next world at an average gge of 39.
This upward trend of life, they
Claimed has been In evidence for
many years, available statistics from
the sixteenth century showing the
span of life to be 13. By the eigh
teenth century it had lengthened to1
28 years.
Claim Virginia
Rappe Intoxicated
San Htancisco. Nov. 25-— Mis;.. Vir
ginia Rappe. motion picture actress,
whose death the state charges, re
sulted from injuries received at the
hands of Rosco© Arbuckle, was
represented in a statement read at
the Arbuckle manslaughter trial here
today as having stated to I)r. Al. K.
Rumwell, San Francisco physician,
that, she “must have been intoxicated
for she could not remember what had
happened’’ during the course of a
party in Arbttckle’s hotel rooms
here.
Dr. Rumwell testified lo having at
tended Miss Rappe after the Ar
buckle party.
Miss Rappe told him she had been
drinking and ‘she did not recollect
anything ihat had happened.” Dr.
Rumwell testified. The prosecution
moral that this testimonv he strick
en out but the court allowed it to re
main.
The. crowd was so dense at the
opening of the afternoon sessjon that
the defendant and counsel had dif
ficulty in reaching their scats.
Arms Conference
May Adjourn Soon
I AYashington, Nov. 25.—< Ry A. P.)—
Rumor was Raining- ground today
among foreign delegate?, that the
! Armament and Kar Eastern eonfer
j enee might adjourn the first fortnight
i of December to give time to the uel
1 egates to go home for Christmas.
! Some members of the ^legation have
already secured passages aboard the
Aquitania. sailing from New York on
I Dec. 13. In the interval of the ad
journment the committees and sub
committees of experts would continue
their work to hnve precise resolutions
ready on the re-assembling of the
conference.
Auburn Man Guilty
Forging Mayor’s Name
Somerville, Mass., Nov. 2.'—
Georges Wales of Auburn, Me.,'was
found guilty today of passing two
worthiest checks, bearing the forged
signature of Mayor Charles W. Eld
redge of this city. He was sentenced
to nine months in the House of Cor
rection.
Harding’s Idea of
International Ass’n
Well Received
President Would Have.
All Nations in Con
ferences — Favors
“Gentlemen’s Agree-;
ment” Rather Than
Treaties — Commis
sion of Jurists May
Settle Chinese Eco-~
nomic Questions
Washington, Nov. 25.—(By A. P.l—
A continuing: scrips of international,
conferences, whose fruition may heC
an "association of nations,'’ has been
suggested informally by President!
Harding to some of the arms dele-?
gates and has met with their general;
approval.
The suggestion has by no means:
reached the point of a definite pro-;
posal for such an association, but it?
was revealed tonight that the Pres-;
ident's personal conversations with
foreign spokesmen on the subject had
greatly increased his hope for a new
day in international relationship as.
a result of the Washington confer*;
cnee.
It was indieated further that as a;
first step toward world wide recogni-;
tion for the conference plan the re
sults of the negotiations here might:
be submitted for approval not only?
to the participating natiops but to.
those not represented here including
Germany and Russia.
Bo far as the suggestions of Mr.*
Harding have been made known, they
contemplate a meeting of nation*
about the council table once a year to
thresh out troublesome questions and
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Portland People
See Bright Meteor
Portland. Me., Nov.. 25—What ap
peared to he a brilliant meteor which
apparently burst into fragments just
before it disappeared from view,
probably hundreds of miles at sea,
passed over this section early today.
It was observed by many persons as
its brilliant light illuminated the city
at 5.45. • *
"I thought the end of the world
had come,” one of those who saw it
commented.
B. C. Defeats Bill
8-Hour Work Day
Victoria, B. O.. Nov. 25—By a vote
of 24 to 15, the British Columbia leg
islature jesterday defeated a bill de
signed to bring into effort next May
the eight-hour working day as a le
gal maximum.
Mixed Worshippers
in Atlanta Churches
Atlanta, Ga„ ov. 25—Mayor .lames
I,. Key has vetoed the ordinance
passed by council last Monday for
bidding the joint worship of whites
and negroes in Atlanta ehurches. T
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