Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 18, 1921, Page 4

| FARMERS | Now is the time to ky in your supply of FLOUR for We will exchange your wheat for Flour, giv- On this plan the winter. ing you a barrel for six bushels of wheat. the price of wheat or flour is not taken into consideration, f At present we have plenty of Bran and Shorts on hand and Rolled Oats on and can supply you with Rolled Barley very shori notice. Farmers’ Union Warehouse Co. Ltd. C. H. GREVE, MANAGER j A Pui Health Bal king at an Economy ‘Price Cor Sure ful Powder ¥ ta t ; and Sa ve ! insno Altim Use Write for New Dr: Price Cook Pric€ Baking Powder Factory, 1063in« lependete 6 Blvd. Chicage Exide Batteries Are the Best By Test We have one that is 10 years old, January 1, 1922 How Long Did Your Battery Last? When you store your car send your battery to us for the | 120,000 native troops in the colonies; winter storgae and repairs. Se W. L. WILLIAMS Phone 39-R LEWISTON, IDAHO | CITY DRAY Both Heavy and Light Hauling. We Solicit a share of your business $ Kincaid & Wortman, Prop. PPR ordered dered eedeedotedeed : ; COTTONWOOD DRAY AND TRANSFER LINE | ROBBINS BROT HERS IICIS : ; 4 pH CARMI ARPES MRE IMR I ~ wrayens | arms | Spokesmen for Britaln and Japan were | | rather guarded in their comments | | suggestion for a continuing agreement | | to limit the size of battle fleets per- | manently | battle fleet would be cut if the Amer- | equality in the number of battleships, | cruisers, | cruisers, while Japan and G | ships, FIGHTING STRENGTH | in | strengths. | new ships and old, battleships, battle. | cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, sub | marines of all classes and aircraft car- | | gregating 164,000 tons, | 000 (estimated as with the colors in } 1921); | BRITISH PLAN TO PAY BILL | made to begin paying the interest on | gates to the press congress of the | written declaration, | egates § DELEGATES RESERVE "COMMENT Set ieniinion Reduction in Navies Is Objective of Hughes Proposal. Sate Washington, D. C.—Delegates to the | conference slowly recovered | from the shock of Secretary Hughes’ | blunt presentation of the proposal for | immediate reduction of the fleets of | Great Brjtain, the United States and | Japan and for a ten-year naval holiday | Apparently the American plan is far more than a 10 year naval holiday coupled with immediate heavy reduc- tion of the fleets of the three powers. | Beyond that is a third, equally blunt That is what Mr. Hughes’ naval replacement really amounts to In naming ships to which each main ican plan for immediate reduction accepted, Secretary Hughes’ statement shows that Great Britain and the United States would be on an were but the British would retain in addi-| tion four battle cruisers. The pro posed Japanese fleet would be com- | posed of six battleships and four battle while the United States content with battleships would be alone Naval officers, in discussing the proposal, emphasized as an outstand ing feature the fact that the United States would be left without battle Great Brit ain would each retain four of these the newest addition to capital fighting craft. By suggesting such a program it appears that the United States sought to convey concrete as surance of the unselfish purpose with which it has entered the conference. | 4 | | | | | | | OF POWERS SHOWN Washington, D. ie eas attempt a figures showing the army and navy | strength of the five principal powers participating in the armament confer- | ence necessarily is a broad one, but it | serves to bring out the problems fac- | ing the conferees. First in importance the limitations discussions wil! | stand the question of relative naval The competitive fighting strength of | navies in terms of existing combat eraft of both the first and second line. riers is as follows in total number of ships and total tonnage: Great Britain, 533 ships, tons; United States. 464 ships, 1,289,- | 463 tons; Japan, 99 ships, 528,689 tons; | France, 138 ships, 462,356 tons; Italy, | 86 ships, 275,622 tons. The known building programme in the same terms are: Great Britain, 13 ships, 39,380 tons, and four additional battle crujgers ag- planned but possibly not yet laid down; United States, 69 ships, 734,928 tons; Japan, | 85 ships, 805,188 tons; France, 34 ships, 91,230 tons; Italy, 21 ships, 19,- 928 tons. For the armies of the powers known figures and carefully calculated estim- ates can be presented. The authorized regular army strength stands approxi- mately as follows: British empire, 562,800; Japan, 302, 1,860,480 France, 600,000 regulars, 164, 000 native troops in North Africa and Italy, 300,000; United States, 157,500 (authorized and including 750 Philip- pine scouts.) 50,000,000 Pounds Yearly to Be Applied to Interest. London.—An arrangement has been the debt owed by Great Britain to the United States at the rate of £50,000,- | 000 yearly, it was announced in the house of commons by Sir Robert | Horne, the chancellor of the exche- | quer. Sir Robert made this announcement in the course of a statement on the budget prospects. Editors Indorse Chinese Labor. Honolulu, T. H.— American dele- world, which has just completed its | sessions, are backing the emergency labor bill now before congross. By a read at the final} session of the press congress, the de!- indorsed. the movement and urged labor relief as necessary to maiotain American supremacy in these SeemuntinnahEhneathteeaiine at jeaevg, SENATOR | SENATOR CROW | & Ewing 47 HARSS William E. Crow of Unleniowsa, Pa., appointed United States senator to | succeed the late Philander C. Knox. FORMAL PEACE IS ESTABLISHED Washington, D. C—Formal! peace be- | tween the United States and Germany at last has been established The state department was officially informed by American Commissioner | Dresel at Berlin that ratifications of peace treaty | the American-German were exchanged Chancello? Wirth. Th tatives from the two countries now is expected to follow shortly B. Houghton of Corning, N. Y., has been virtually decided on by President Harding as the new American ambas- sador to Germany. A German charge between him and | d'affaires {s now en route to the Uni- ted States to establish a German em- bassy in Washington. | CHINESE WILL STAND FIRM Manchuria Will Not Be Sacrificed to Gain Agreement, It is Said. Pekin—The Chinese people would regret it if the Washington conference failed owing to a disagreement of the | barticipating powers over far east questions, but they hope that China alone will not be obliged to pay the price of obtaining an agreement. They | re determined if the price to be paid involves Chinese political and terri- torial entity, it will be resisted as un- | | just and unacceptable. Dr. W. W. Yen, the foreign minister, makes this statement in a special ar- | ticle in a “Pacific conference number” of a Shanghai weekly review article generally is considered to be an expression of the official Chinese attitude ference. Governor Hart Calls Drug Conference. Olympia, Wash.--Stirred by contin- ued reports reaching his office of the | widespread illegal sale of narcotics in | the state, Governor Louis F. Hart sent letters to conference in Seattle November 26. 600-Pound Woman Dies. Galena, Mo.— Mrs. Samantha Min- ton, 37, pounds and was believed to be one of the heaviest women in the world, died here. Her body was 8 feet in circum- ference. Armament Plan Commended. Washington, D. C.—General and en- thusiastic commendation was given by members of congress to the American plan for Imitation of naval armament. | Leaders of both parties joined in ex- | pressions of approval. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat.— Hard white, soft white, white club and hard winter, $1.04; red Walla, $1. Oats—No. 2 white feed, $27. Corn—Whole, $34; cracked, $36, 9 Hay — Alfalfa, $15 per ton; valley timothy, $16@16.50; eastern Oregon timothy, $18@19. Butter Fat—44@48c. Egges—Ranch, 43@55c. Cattle—Choice steers, $5.75 @6.50; | medium to good, $5.25@5.75. 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