VOL. LXIV—NO. 29 NAVAL TREAT e The W ations for limita w4 their coneum- nary sscsion o - s, as chalrman of the 10 the record the nine hurrying through seolof in & monotone < clerks in jegisla‘fve cese when he had fin lutions, he annou: Unitkd Stotes and ¢ = names of the o®ier table Bach delegation ¥ a nod o s announcement s a . n after 1 nimene s ad wpted 1ha shairman went e next pega of the voluminous undie of resolutions befoss him. The mine rtasolntans tme sdotod “ovir a wide rangs of sumeots. Brielly rrovide for witharzesi offices from Thina se toretgn | oa avary tenance of the dper. o Dot et of the Chinase »ilways | = of squitahie treatment to all | N Blicatlon of 2% 1s'erna- | 3! commitments rwting Chiva's 1), | tz. dsliemy Ty €%ins of #3 Avelkn D O e e e 1) 'ru' wrdars ivaout Ger ¢ i4at: and conmul- ation emong the pewers rogarding with- ramal of foretzn trooms whish ore IES PUBLICLY APPROVED BY CONFERENCE Establishes a Fixed Rate of Capital Ship Strength Between the “ive Great Powers and Pledges Them Against Unre- cted Submarine Warfare and Use of Poison Gas— lenipotentiaries of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy Will Formally Affix Their Sig- natures Within a Day or Two. joners in Russia will be speedily re- ~a ireaty samtion. Ore which China is mot & part; espremses th Bece that the Chiness armed forces will be redueat H The resclution for revision of the Chi- | nese tariff was not brought forward at | the plenary session hut will be embodied i & separate treaty to be presented later. Work already has begun on this treaty as well as the one dealing With the other agreements on Chinese ques-| ons reached by the Far Eastern com- mittee. Drafts of the two treaties will be considered tomorrow morning by the | delegations meeting separately and they may be discussed later in the day by the | Far Eastern committee. | Announcenient of the terms today of of the Shantung controversy, | brinzing to a close the long dispute be- | ween China and Japan, is expected to| asien act'ow on all the pending Far | Fastern questions hecause it ‘emoves one of the chief elements of discord. Under! the settiement, Shantung within five | rs will become Chinese territory gov-| rentally as geographically | and thus after months of agitation in | China and Japan the Japanese govern- | ment definitely and finaily has set a time | for the fuifiliment of its promise. Japan has agreed to.restore to Chinese ¥ well as ownership the Teingtao-Tsinanfu mail- way. (he heart of the controversy, at the end of six months, and full-control after| five or fifteen years at China's option | ponpayment of the equivalent of 53,- 000,000 gold German marks. | China on her part agreed that during the period of payment a Japanese na- jwnal should occupy the position of traf fic manager of the road, together wi lupanese to fill jointly with a Chinese the post of chief accountant. These offi- cials, however, will be under the direct authority of a Chinese manager director ould be discharged by him for cause E “he railway will he turned over to a Chinese aging director within six months of the sging of the treaty, the ast date for the fulfillment by Japan of 1715 of ihe transfer of the entire | casehold. The treaty probab be icted finally at another meeting to- morrow morning of the Chinese and Jap- | on of the gov- ernment. Success of nitrate manufacture which can be economically used for fortllizer is nittates ds the only possible which nitrates can be produced umder Chilean products. ‘The method proposed to finance by ‘thel de of excess power the manufacture of method by, present known methods and soid to the! Amerfcan 2=~ at a price less than the ] { the letter conctuded, “We wa “to consider any changes or amendmentsi which you may suggest with a view to accepting the same if we can see our why| clear £0 to do.” 1 FORECAST GIVEN OF THE NEXT DDIGRATION ACT New York, Feb. 1—Further restric- n of immigration and more rigid nat- \:alization tests or a1%=% were advocated before the Women’s Department of the National Odvic Federation today by Con- creseman Albert Johnson of Washinston, airman of the committee on immigration “Tha next immigration act will give us an_entirely new code,” the speaker said which . will include separat> natura’ e ton for women: full rghts for Ame «a women marred to aliens; an English rading and writing test for citizenshin: and probably a form of registration as part of the naturalization procese. Mr. Johnson declared the thres per cent immizTation law is a complete suc- cess, saying: “If 1 am any judge, neither the house nor senate will let go of a law which in 8 months has reduced immigration to exactly 187,129 souls not count'ng 1,712 r-orsons temporarily admitted on bond for humane reasons” - Immigration durirg the vear prior to the three per cent. law was 805,228, he &aid, and threatened to Teach the pre-war rate of more than a million a year. “Persons who would lift the ban on aliens,” he added, “know that the United States Is more generous 4han. Englani. France, Canada, Brazil, Argentina other countries. 014 nations from Begypt down were weakened and wrecked by admixed pon- wiation. Unrestrioed imrqgration can io the same for any nation. The other nations know it, from observation and w the frrst asylum, the orizinal , melting pot, have discovered by experfence that we have gone the limit of safety uncil we are willing to become a veritable man's land, with the splendor and customs of the Orient on our Pac shores tongues and habits of Bave cur Atlantic states and the Ethiopizn threatening on the eouth.” no- STRIKE OF RAILWAY MEN IN GERMANY THREATENED Berlin, Feb. 1 (By the A. P.)—The Fovernment has announced that it wiil take agzressive measures in the event| of of the railway men, which It s understood becomes cffective at mid- night tonight. The gevernment autflori- es point out that the workmen and leaders have taken an oath to suppe the povérnment bas announced that will take aggressive measures in event of a strike of the rallway which it is understood hecomes effective at midnight tonight. The government authorities point out that the workmen and leaders have taken an oath to sun port the government and declares tha case of disorganization ef traffic they will be prosecuted. This“is the first time in the history of Germany that the government ha expressed its determination to take drs tic steps against a labor union. .Onl: the most radical labor quarters openiy | approve of the strike deeisign, the mod- erates contending that proper considera- tion was not given to the question be- fore the vote was taken. The police president has ordered the confiscation of the funds of the strikers and the arrest of the leaders an® speakers. as well as the destruction of hand bills and othar propaganda material. In the meantime the strike leaders are in hiding, fearing arrest. the men, J. R. HOWARD CANDIDATE TO SUCCEED SENATOR KENYON Columbia, Feb. 1.—;. R, Howard, president of the Amer'-an Farm Bureau Federation who arrived here tonight from the east, #ald he recently had been advised by Semator W. S. Kenyon that it was his_intention to ask Governor Kendall. oTWowa, to appoint Howard to fill Kenvon's unexpired term in the sen- ate. “It Governor Kendall tenders me the place.” Mr. Howard ald, “T will submit the Whole subject to the executive com- mittee of the American Farm Bureau Federation. If the committee = unani- mous in deciding that T should accept, I will do_so.” Mr. Howard, who was scheduled to address the Ohfo Farm Bureau Federa- WOULD ALLY COAL MINEES AND EAILEOAD WORKERS Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 1.—Renewal of efforts to form an alliance of coal minera and railroad workers, the two largest labor groups in the United States. wax sought today by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, for the avowed purnose of bringing two million workers together “in resistanca to proposed attacks on wage scales.’ In letters sent to officers of sixteem railroad unions, Mr. Lewis invited tha railroad men to confer with miners’ of- ficials “at the earliest possible date’ Besides the invitation Mr. Lewis issued a formal statement asserting that the rail- road men were facing efforls “to en= force further unwarranted wage cuts om them,” and that “certain interests are seeking wage reductions in the ceal im- dustry.” . “In order to cope with this situation, and to successfully combat this frenzled hysteria,” the statement added, -“the mine workers are willing to pool their interests with the railroad organizations: and stand with them in res proposed attacks on wa At least two million workers would be Joined together by the alliance, Mr. Lewis #aid in discussing the proposal. He placed the membership of the miners’ union at 500,000 and the combined membership of the rallroad unions at 1,500,000 to 1,750,« 000. The movement for the alllance, Mr, Lewis said, was started at the miners® convention in 1919 with the appointment of a committee to confer with the chiefs of the “Biz Four” brotherhoods. In July, 1820, the committee met with the brothe erhood chiefs agreeing that alliance was not then advisable. This agreement was reported to the miners’ convention heid last September, which directed that fur- ther efforts be made to create the alli- ance, resulting in the invitation ‘ssued today. 4 HAS FIXED DIMENSIONS OF HIS FLAT WORLD: Zion, M., Feb. 1.—Wilbur Glenn Vo= liva, successor to John Alexander Dowis as overseer of Zion and head of tha Christian Apostolie church, has complet-. ed the fixing of dimensions of his flat, world, existence of which is now taught in the Zion schools. According to Mr. Vol nouncement the solid material, from moon and stars are hung liers from a ceiling. The edzes of the dome, he explained to the coneregational at Shiloh taberna< cle, rest on the wall of ice which sura Tounds the flat world to keep foolhardy mariners from tumbling over the edge into_oblivion. “That is the plain teaching of the whole word of God,” Mr. Voliva sad. At the time he announced the worlqy was a flat plane surroundel by ice, Mr. Voliva also fixed the sun as being 2 small body about 40 miles in diameter and loy cated only 3,000 miles from the earth, TO REIMBURSE PRODUCERS i WHO ARE WITHHOLDING MTLR Boston, Feb, New England Milk Producers’ Association _ which claims 90,000 memb: New England and eastern New York, voted today te empower the directors to levy an assess ment on all members as partial relme bursement for producers who were With= holding milk from one of the larze Bos= ton distributing companies which had Tefused to buy on terms proposed by tha sales committee of the association. Othes Boston distributors have agresd to the 'ms. 5 WEDDING Halsey—Hawkins, Newark, N. J., Feb. 1—Samuel Arm= strong Halsey, who scored “Double A™ on the famous Edison questionnaire a year ago, has mc\e another perfect rec- ord for answering' smartly and accurates 17, In & ceremony at Trinity Cathedral tos night at which Thomas R. Edison's son, Charles, acted s best man while becom- Ing his brother-in-law. ! Halsey orally tion here today, was late iIn arriving and will deliver his address tomorrow. TRIED TO FORCE WAY INTO OFFICE OF CHARLES M. SCHWAB New York, Feb. 1—.After unsuccess. fully trylng to forcs his way into the private " office of Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Otto Neimeyer, an sc- tor, was locked up in Bellsvue Hospl- tal for observation late tcday. During tho struggle With guards who blocked his way, Netmeyer knocked over and smashod several pleces of rurniturs and terrorized employss of the Bethlehem “arporation and nearby offioes. _ responded “I do” and “T will" to the fne terrogation of Dean Arthur Dumper, and never missed a syllable. Last year's performance ultimately won Halsey his present position of pers sonnel manager of the Edison® works— tonight's a life situation as the husband of Miss Charlotte Woodruff Hawkins, Whose sister is Mrs. Charles Edison. $3,000 Fire in Merid Meriden, Feb. 1.—Fire believed to have started from an overheated befler damaged the house and _furniture of John Swiatak, 537 West Maln strect, carly this evening, to the extent of about 33,000, Tho structure was well known rome years ago In this sectior, as the, Atlantlo Garden. _ %

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