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TEMPLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1921,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
110 Ul 10
Of ULLIED POWERS
MATTER NEVER OFFICIALLY
BROUGHT TO ATTENTION OF
THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSTON KEEFIIt SILENT
Tells Senate Committee That One Nn
lion Has Ih-ojmscd Writing! Off of
Loan*, Rut Declines lo Say
Nation — Not to Make Further
I/onus—Status of Loan* to Russia.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
LONDON, Feb. 7.—An iiiutiiry car-
ried unt in offii-iiit circles with
reference to the statement l>>
Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the
exchequer, that the American govern-
ment hats vetoed a British suggestion
for a general writing off of inter-al-
lieil obligations tends to show that (he
chancellor's declaration was based on
Misinformation.
It became known late today that
one British official who cheeked up
'he data at the treasury during thin
tl'tefnoon, found t>:at the matter, had
lever been made the subject of formal
i.changes between the British and
Ainei'icuji governments. Mr. ciiatn-
' ilain declined today to aniplif) or
lohiment upon his statement.
Informal Discussions.
In another reliably Informed quar-
ter it was declared that the matter
had only come up ia informal discus-
sions between allied financial repre-
sentatives at the Paris peace confer-
ence, where, the writing off was first
unvested by the French to the Amer-
leuns, and liy Ihcm to the llvitish.
This was said to have occurred in
Fvbiuary and March, 1919. A year
.later,- when the British treasury was
en^agui in a gen *il discussion of al-
lied finaneial settlements the writing
off the debts proposal was informally
inferred to American treasury officials
by the British treasury but the Ameri-
cans conveyed an informal intimation,
it was stated, that negotiations along
that line would lead to unfavorable
consideration on the part, of the
American govcrs^jent.
Washington, Feb. 7.—Declaration
by Secretary Houston that an un-
named allied government had pro-
pose | to ihe United States cancella-
tion of its war obligations to that
country, a wrangle over status of war
loam to Itussla and Russian embassy
financing and a decision to divide the
investigation as to foreign loans with
a foieign relations committee, marked
today's session of the senate judiciary
committee. The proposal of Senator
]teed, democrat, Missouri, to prohibit
additional foreign loans was under
Consideration.
One Proposal Made.
Secretary Houston said merely that
"one government" hud proposed can-
cellations bv tho United States of
loans to it. lie preferred "not to say"
what government and the question
w :s not further pressed by Senator
Deed.
Most of the session was taken up
*ith discussion of Mr. Houston's as
gertimi that ho did not propose to
*uke further loans to foreign govern-
ments. Tho secretary contended, }iow-
over. that it would be "unfortunate"
United States failed to live up
demn commitments" and make
additional payments, if requested, in
the case of balances, estimated at
$7.1.000,000 standing to the credit Of
r J lied nations. Ho added that no such
i«<iuest had been made or indicated,
however.
Senator Keed paid Secretary Hons-
tan's assurances as to his plans would
rot bind his successor in office, which
he said iiis measure sought.
Mr. Houston will appear tomorrow
before the house foreign relations
committee in executive session, having
objected today to making public docu-
ments relating to the foreign loan*.
Tito I/oans to Itussla.
The Russian loan came up in testi-
mony of Nicholas Kelly, assistant
treasury secretary In charge of foreign
loans, who testified that before the
fall of the Kerensky government, Bus-
sin had received $1S7.000,00 in war
credits.
No additional payments, he said,
were made until early 'in 1920. when
ltusslan embassy officials were al-
lowed to draw $200,000 with the un-
demanding that it would be replaced.
Objections of senators at this point
caused an executive session, at which
it was decided to leave international
aspects of loan matters to the foreign
relations committee, the Judiciary
committee to resume hearing on the
Heed measure Friday.
KE8CUED FROM KIDNAPERS
ir nit
to
Explosion Near
a Country School
Kills 8 Persons
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
■ f.<wrcnccville, 111., Feb. 7.—Eight
persons are dead and another prob-
ably fatally injured as the resfflt of
the explosion of a cun of nitroglyc-
erine. ut Cross Roads school, near here
today.
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&MMM.
Mrs. Gladys \V. WithereU, wife of a Los Angeles broker, who was lured
front her home 'and taken to a hut in the foothills by two men and held for
live days. She was rescued unharmed. The photo shows Airs, Withered and
her baby. Jack. The kidnapers have been sentenced for a term of between
ten years and life. (c)U&U
III OF OO8BEOS PUCKERS PUS TO
1 MUSS FEB. 21 SELL MMDS
MEASURES ABE INTRODUCED TO
PROVIDE FOR ELECTION ON
THE ISSUE IN 1922.
COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY IX
FINAL REPORT STIUSSSlvS
BANK AFFAIRS.
ieff is uki eciim
Wants to Put All Boards. Commissions
and Departments Under Supervision
of tlic legislature and Regulute Ex-
penses—Probe of Ha/.ln^ at A. A M.
Activity of OH Companies In Texas.
Williams Says Workers Hero and
There Will Havo to Accept Lower
Pity op Face Unomploymeiit—Mid-
dlemen Must Adjust Profits— Few
Failures in Banks—Good Showings.
CASE OF BtiWAN' AND SCHIVNER
AMI THREE (JTHEHK FOR
Ml'RBEIt DOCKETED.
THEY SI HMIT NEW SCHEME TO
(il l Itll) OF PROPERTY AS
AGREEMENT PROVIDES.
(Associated Pr«?s Dispatch.)
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 7.— The ease of
Albert 1.. Rowan, W, S. Scrivner ami
three others indicted for the murder
of Gcorgo \Vr. StreeT, a, postal em-
ploye killed Jan. 14 when the Jackson
street postal substation was robbed,
today was set for Feb. 21 in state
crimtyial court. Maury Hughes, Dal-
las eotuity "district attorney* an-
nounced the date this afternoon.
llowan and Ben Luna were sen-
tenced to twenty-five years in the
Leavenworth federal penitentiary Sat-
urday for the alleged planning of the
robbery. Serivner's sentence was
withheld pending the murder trial.
Warrants charging perjury against
Arch A. Harper, a waiter and defense
witness in the trial of the post office
robbery were issued here today by R.
E. Taylor, United States attorney.
Harper testified last week that
Bowan was in a restaurant where he
is employed, between 4 and 5 o'clock
on the afternoon of ine robbery. He
also testified that he had discussed
Rowan's alleged part in the affair on
Jan. 15.
""""Answering a question as to how be
had heard Rowan's name mentioned,
be said he bad read it in newspapers.
Rowan's name was not published un-
til three days after the robbery.
Given Damages in
Sum of $10,750 for
Rotten Egg Attack
(Associated Press Ut Kyi tell.)
Sumrall, Miss., Feb. 7.— A rotten
egg shower is worth $10,750 to the
man showered in the opinion of a
jury here, It returned a verdict in
that amount today in favor of Charles
II. Francek, former vice president of
tho Mississippi Federation of Labor,
who was bombed with ancient eggs
and other missiles last August as he
was forced to leave town after trying
to organize a union among negro em-
ployes of the J. J. Newman I,um-
ber company. The jury held the com-
pany blameless, but its three super-
intendents, Thomas, Mallard and Lott,
responsible, and levied tlie penalty
against them.
Russians Return
Home With Money
and Fine Jewels
(Associated Prrssi Dispatch.)
Boston, Mass., Feb. 7.—With a total
of nearly $500,000 in their purses
and $250,000 worth of jewels, 200
Russians, who arrived here seven
years ago as poor immigrants, are
about to return to their native land
and expect to spend the rest of their
lives In ease.
The Russians have been employed
in Lynn Industrial plants and their
prosperity is tho result of war-time
wages, frflgal living and thrift.
At the present rate of exchange
they believe their savings of $2,000
to $5,000 each will entitle them to be
called rich in home circles.
(Associated Press Dispatch,)
Washington, Feb. 7.-—Swift & com-
pany and Armour & company filed to-
day with District of Columb a su-
preme court a new plan for the sale
of their stock yard interests, in ac-
cord with the terms of tho agreement
with the government more than a year
ago.
The plan is a substitute for the one
recently disapproved by the court un-
der which the interests would have
been acquired by F. H, l'rince & com-
pany, Boston bankers.
It contemplates the appointment of
sales agents to sell the slock under
supervision of trustees, who would
havo control of the sto<;k mentimO
with authority to vole it, and would
receive $5,000 annually each.
The salts agents would give pre-
ference to buyers in this order:
Livestock producers; stockholders
in the yards, other than the defend-
ants; common carriers serving the
yards, local citizens or municipalities
or local syndicates.
The department of justice would be
given time to study the new plan and
it' objections are filed, argument will
be held by the court before a final
decision is rendered.
'ilie stock yard interests, which it Is
proposed to soil, and the price per
share which woutd bo asked for the
stock are; The St. 1'aul Stock Yards
company. $100; Union Stock Yards
company of Omaha, Ltd., $110; St.
Louis National Stock Yards, $120;
tile Denver Union Stock Yards com-
pany, $<»0; Fort Worth Stock com-
pany, $100; Sioux City Stock Yards,
preferred. $t>0, common, ?60, and the
Bourbon Stock Yards company, $80.
(Associated Pres.? Dispatch.)
Austin, Tex., Feb. 7.—Two measures
were introduced in the legislature to-
day proposing to submit to a vote of
the people the proposition of moving
tho University of Texas from its pres-
ent site. The house concurrent reso-
lution was introduced by Baldwin of
I,ubbock, Bope of Nueces and twenty-
four others while the senffle concur-
rent resolution was introduced by Sen-
ator McNeaius of Dallas.
Both measures propose to deter-
mine a permanent location for the
university and provide for an election
to be hold in July, 1922. The ballots
will have three propositions printed
on them, namely, whether the uni-
versity shall remain at its present site;
whether it shall be moved to tho
Brackenridge tract of land adjacent
j to Austin, or whether it shall be
moved to some other Texas town or
city. The resolutions are similar i:i
all provisions except that the senate
resolution provides that the city or
town desiring the location of tho insti-
tution shall guarantee to give ten mil-
lion dollars "as a free contribution to
tlie state of Texas," and five hun-
dred ach's for the location of tne uni-
versity. Time for considering resolu-
tions expired before cither measure
could be acted upon.
N-cff Urges Economy.
All departments, boards and com-
mission of Texas should be directly re-
sponsible to the legislature and under
the supervision of that body, Gover-
nor Neff declared in a message to the
legislature this morning.
It is not a wise policy to permit any
officer of any department of the gov-
ernment to collect fees and to appro-
priate such fees fts he pleases to the
running of his particular department,
the governor said. All public funds
should be turned into the state treas-
ury and should be paid out by specific
and direct legislation, he declared,
and no department should be permit-
ted to employ assistants, either as to
number or salary, without its payroll
being subject to tho "wisdom of the
legislature." Governor Neff said he
was daily being more impressed with
tile idea that the government should
be put in proper condition to be
"economically and efficiently ope-
rated."
Hazing At A. & M.
Senator Parr of Duval declared in
the senate that an investigation of
hazing at Texas Agricultural and Me-
chanical college should be made, cit-
ing a letter from a citizen of Houston
in which it was claimed that a student
was forced to leave A. & M. on ac-
count of being hazed. No action was
taken on the matter. .
Senator Hcrtzberg's bill prohibiting j J4.000.000.000. or 30 per cent of the
fraudulent advertising by any person, total.
President's Veto Sustained.
(Associated Pros:'. Dbp.itcii) ■
Washington, Feb. 7.—President
Wilson's veto of a bill to give titla of
76 acres of swamp land in Montana to
tho Milk River Valley Gun club of
Montana was sustained by the senate
late today by a vote of 47 to 9.
(Associated Press Dispatch l
Washington, Feb. 7.—The country
is now in many respects on a sounder
basis financially than it has been for
years, Comptroller of the Currency
John Skelton Williams Informed con-
gress today in what be described as
his "seventh and last annual report."
Deflation, obviously inevitable a
year ago, lias come, he said, and prices
of many basic commodities and raw
materials have returned to pre-war
levels or below.
"ft now remains for the middle-
man," tho comptroller declared, "to
adjust Ills profits to tho new prices
before the ultimate consumer will re-
ceive the benefit of the reduced cost
of living."
Labor, however, Mr. Williams said,
must soon determine whether a shut-
down and idleness is preferred to a
lower watte scale. Mills and factories
cannot afford io operate unless they
can turn oiil commodities at prices
the public can afford to pay, ho as-j
sorted, and it is better for tin; manu-
facturers to operate and produce
goods at cost or at a very hart'iyr
margin of profit than to close iloA'ti
entirely. Participation ' y labor with
capital in the profits he suggested as
the only principle to restore business.
8.157 National Banks.
During the fiscal year ended June
HO, 1920, the comptroller said there
were 8,157 national banks in opera-
tion, the highest number ever report-
ed, and despite the difficulties en-
countered they made the best record
in immunity from failure in aboul
forty years.
Combined resources of all banks on
Juno 30, 1920, including national,
state and federal reserve, the comp-
troller said, aggregated $59,153,70!,-
000.
Figures showing for tho first time
the business of the principal borrow-
ers from national banks wore pre-
sented by the comptroller. lx>ans and
discounts on Nov. 15, 1920, he said,
aggregated $13,764,000,000, of which
loans to farmers and live stock raisers
amounted to $1,998,000,000, or 14 per
cent; loans to manufacturing concerns
approximated $2,862,000,000, or 21
per cent; to merchants, mercantile
concerns, individuals in the jobbing
business and trading wholesale and
retail, $3,581,000,000, or 26 per cent.
I.oitns and Earnings.
Loans reported to bond and stock
brokers and dealers in investment se-
curities aggregated $664,000,000; to
railroads, shipping companies, electric
light and power companies, $225,000,-
000, while the loans to professional
men, including doctors, lawyers, teach-
ers, chemists, engineers and clergy-
men, amounted to $375,000,000. Mis-
cellaneous loans amounted to about
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■Bann
Frank Zinimrr of Denver, who is
under arrest in Kbcrbaeli, Geruwiy,
with another American soldier,
charged with assault as the result of
their attempt to arrest Grovor <Ilerg-
doll of Philadelphia. Major General
Allen, commander of the American
forces in Germany, apologized to the
German government lor the actions of
dimmer and his mate.
Night Riding to
Force Reduction in
Acreage is Favored
(Associated Press Despatch )
Pine Bluff, Ark., Feb. 7.—-Night
riding, if necessary to enforce the
Memphis plan for reducing cotiou
acreage, in this county, was .favored
by speakers at a mass meeting of
000 farmers, supply merchants, bank-
ers and business men here today in
! the interests of cotton acreage reduc-
tion,
American Legion
V/ants to Clean up
the Public School
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Washington, Feb. 7.—There are V
000 disloyal teachers in educational
institutions in tlie United States who
must bo removed, Henry J. 'Ryan of
Boston, chairman of tho Americanism
committee of the American Legiot.
declared today at a meeting here of
the Legion's executive committee.
Mr. Ryan announced that a meeting
of representatives of all organizations
doing Americanism work would b
held In Washington March 15, for the
purpose of consolidating all such
work.
Bill IESI HOT
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C'AITURED GERMAN VESSEL TQ
UK USED IN EXPERIMENTS
TO BE STAGED SOO.Y.
ms rsi hm
Republican Leader In Hbtup Declared
I ul led Mates should Ind the Way
in Paring Down—Oxiiitx Hate* t«
Hear Talk When Dream Alxnit lo he
Real I/ed—Plans fur Dumbing Tent.
Corn to be Sent
to Hunger Victims
in the Near East
ANIMALS DONATED BY AMERI-
CAN'S TO REPLENISH GER-
MAN DAIRY HERDS.
Rig Tlin Murphy Surrender*.
(Associated Press DigpRleli )
Chicago, III., Feb. 7.—Big Tim Mur-
phy .labor leader and politician, today
surrendered to Charles Fitzmorris,
general superintendent of police, on
charges of participating last August
In a 1100,000 mail pouch robbery In
Pullman, III. The warrant was sworn
cut by federal authorities. He denied
the charges.
(Associated Press Dispatch, i
Bremen. Germany, Feb, 7.—Tlie
American steamer West Arrow, from
Galveston and Newport News, arrived
here today with 742 milch cows do-
nated to Germany by American farm-
ers. Seven cows died of seasickness
during the voyage, but forty calves
were'born. This was the second con-
signment, the first of 700 Holstcin
cows having arrived in Hamburg In
November last.
Arrangements are being made to
distribute the animals under the di-
rection of the German eommltteo on
foreign relief and the German Red
Cross,
A committee of prominent citizen?
boarded the West Arrow to welcome
tho thirty Americans, mostly sons of
Kanaas and Texas farmers, who cared
for the cows across the Atlantic, while
the newspapers published extra edi-
tions thanking the donors.
The Ruhr Valley, Cologne, Frank-
foil, Berlin and other cities will be
visited by the Americana during their
two weeks stay in Germany. The
West Arrow immediately began to
coal for a voyage to tho Azores.
firm or corporation was finally passed
in the senate.
An act relating to water improve-
ments and irrigation districts by
Stewart of Reeves was engrossed.
Proposing that the attorney general
immediately investigate the activities
of the various oil companies of tho
state as to their-violation of the Texas
anti-trust laws is contained in a house
resolution introduced by Burkett of
Eastland.
The hearing on the Neinast case
which was scheduled for tomorrow
morning was postponed until Thurs-
day owing to the inability of Mr.
Ncinast's attorney to appear in his be-
half.
An occupation tax to be levied on
all moving picture theatres the pro-
ceeds to go to tho available school
fund of tho state is provided In a bill
introduced today by Wright of Archer.
Under the provisions of the bill 2 per
cent of the gross receipts of all thea-
tres in towns up to 2,000 population.
2 1-2 cents between 2,000 and 5,000
and 3 per cent in all cities over 5,000
shall be paid to the state.
The bill by King of Throckmorton
proposing to give 15 per cent of the
receipts of counties from automobile
license fees to the state highway de-
partment and 85 per cent to the coun-
ty was engrossed by tho house.
However, an amendment by Fly of
Gonzales was adopted which leaves
the system of the receipts division as
it as present and places the highway
department under the budget system
Tills amendment substituted King's
proposed division.
Federal Aid for
Road Building Is
Passed in House
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Washington, Feb. T.—A bill author-
izing the appropriation of $100,000,-
000 for road improvement during the
fiscal year 1922 was passed today by
th« house 273 to 50.
Gross earnings of the national banks
during the last fiscal year aggregated
$1,109,000,000, while their total ex-
penses were $736,000,000, of which
$175,000,000 was for salaries and
wages and $287,000,000 was for in-
terest on deposits.
National banks in the city of New
York showed earnings on capital
stock of 37i per cent; Philadelphia
national banks, 33J per cent; Dallas,
SO per cent; Chicago, 21 per cent:
Boston .23 percent; Cleveland 246 l>er
cent; Minneapolis, 21i per cent; St.
1 .outs, 174 per cent; Richmond, 20.S;
Kansas City, 17, and San Francisco,
18.
Pueblo, Colo., with 55 per cent re-
ported the largest earnings in any re-
serve city; Birmingham, Ala., was
next with 391 per cent, and Atlanta
third with 383 per cent.
During the fiscal year the comp-
troller reported three presidents, eight
cashiers of banks and 30 assistant
cashiers, tellers, bookkeepers and oth-
ers of national banks were convicted
of criminal violations of the banking
law and sentenced to terms of impris-
onment running up to six years and
varying fines.
Mr. Williams showed the largest
salary paid any national bank presi-
dent to be $100,000 a year.
Oppose News Priut Tariff.
(Associated Pre«» Dispatch)
Washington, Feb. 7.—Free entry of
news print paper from all foreign
countries as well as Canada was urged
today before the house ways and
means committee by American news-
paper publisher^ They replied to the
proposal made Saturday by news print
manufacturers that the duty on news
print be made $15 a ton except on
that coming from Canada, which
would enter free.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 7.—Half a
million bushels of corn soon will be
concentrated at New Orleans from the
middle western corn belt for shipment
lo famine victims of the near cast.
J. E. Kirby, representative of the
national relief committee, was In Kan-
cas City today arranging for shipment
for part of the grain. He also is com-
pleting agreements with mills to man-
ufacture hominy grits from the corn.
The cereal represents the surplus of
farms throughout the middle west
given by farmers under the condition
that it should not be sold.
FORCFS WIFE TO DRINK
POISON AND THEN SHOOTS HER
(Associated Press t/i»pstcli.)
Greenville, 111., Feb. 7.—WiJIiam
Carillon, 27 years old, today compelled
his wife, at the point of a revolver
to drink a supposed polsonus concoc-
tin, shot her in the abdoi len, and then
inflicted a gunshot wound In his right
side. The shooting occurred in the
Carrillon home at Poeahontos, nine
miles west of here.
KILLED III COUNTY
NO REPORT ON THE UNCOUNTED
THOUSA NDS ASPHY XI AT ED
OR POISONED IN DRIVE.
GOVERN .>1ENT FOR IX AST
East Texas; Tuesday partly cloudy,
colder except in northwest portion:
Wednesday partly cloudy warmer.
West Texas: Tuesday fair not so
cold in north portion; Wednesday
fair. >
Feb. 7.—Incomplete re-
turns received up until tonight at the
< i juiigo J. W. Sutton, general
in charge of the rat killing campaign
which was waged throughout Bell
county last week, showed that a total
of 128,712 rats were killed. All re-
ports were supposed to be in his office
not later than tonight, but he an-
nounced that those arriving tomorrow
morning will be included in the final
count.
Judge Sutton expressed himself as
highly gratified over the results of the
campaign. Thousands of rats have
been killed and no report made, be
said, and unknown thousands have
been poisoned and asphyxiated, the
number of which cannot be estimated
oven by those killing them. There has
been a thorough campaign waied m
practically every Bell county farm
with most pleasiug results.
He estimates that the rats already
reported killed would In the course of
a year have destroyed at lentot $321,-
7S0 worth of property.
(Associated Press Diip.it, ti )
Washington, Feb. 7. Participation
by the war department, in a series of
experiments to determine the value of
aircraft against major naval veme'.s
was Invited by Secretary Denials today
in a letter to Secretary Baker.
The first of the tests will be con-
ducted within tiie next ;io days, Mr,
Daniels said, and conditions approxi-
mating as closely as possib'e tho 'e of
battle will be simulated.
The captured German battleship
Osfriesland, of 26,500 tons, probably
will be used fur the first experiment.
Admiral K. E. t'oontz, chief of naval
operations, prior to the making publis
of Secretary Daniels' letter, hid told
the house naval committee that withia
tho next, three months the navy de-
partment would bomb a large war-
hhip from tlie air in the open sea in
an effort to test the the.-ry advanced
by Brigadier General Mitchell of tin
army air service, that airplanes had
made capital naval vessels useless.
Must Hall Fvpense-.
Representative Mondell of Wyo-
ming, republican floor leader, who
preceded Admiral t'oontz on tin' stand,
warned the committee that unless ex-
penditures for military establishments
were cut down, some of the larger
nations of the world would be driven
into bankruptcy. He characterize!
the navy department's estimates un-
der Secretary Daniels as "a notice t »
the world from peace loving America
of the of fit ial announcement of tho
American administration, accepted
abroad as a mandate to, If not an
expression "f. the will of the Ameri-
can people."
The United States should take the
lead in disarmament, declared Mr.
Mondeil, adding;
"if an agreement is not reached for
the limitation of armaments and war-
like expenditures in the near future,
the fault will be that of America. a«
in former days the fault was that of
Germany."
Favors Disarmament.
Representative Towner, Iowa, fol-
lowed Mr. Mondell, He also urged a
disarmament agreement, but advised
continuation of the present building
program until It wjis reached, and no
action by this country except by' In-
ternational agreement. The drastic
cut in military expenditures in this
country since the end of tiie war *vas
not equaled anywhere abroad, he said,
and was evidence to the world of
America's desire to reduce Us military
establishment to the minimum consis-
tent with safety.
Discussing the question of disarma-
ment. Admiral Coontz declared that
disarmament talk had appeared after,
"we have waited all our lives for a
navy of importance and equality," and
"now when realization was at hand,"
he advised against stopping any part
of the 1916 building program so far as
big ships were concerned.
Secretary Daniels, in making public
his letter to Secretary Baker, pointed
out that by allied agreement the
United States was obligated to destroy
the Osfriesland and other former
German naval vessels given this coun-
try as soon as experiments now un-
der way wero concluded. He could
think of no more fitting or useful
method of destroying them, he said,
than by using them as test ships for
aviation bomb experiments. He inti-
mated that the old battleship Iowa,
already fitted for radio control appa-
ratus, would be used for similar pur-
pose later.
SOLDIER HOSPITAL BILL
IS PASSED IN THE HOUSE
(Associated Presj Dispatch )
Washington, Feb. 7.—Two big reiler
measures were put through the house
in a hujry today and a third was
beaten by a slight margin.
Called up under suspension of rules,
a proceeding which required a two-
thirds vote on passage, the thirteen
million dollar soldiers' hospital was
passed by a rising vote and the one
hundred million dollar road fund ap-
propriation won with votes to spare.
T .e big upset of the day was tha
defeat of the Wlnslow bill to permit
partial payments to railroads under
the guaranty section of the transports*
tion act.
Cotton Damaged By Fire.
(Associated Press Dlnpnteti)
Helena, Ark., Feb. 7.—-Fire of un-
known origin this morning durnaged
a quantity of cotton belong-ng to the
St. Francis cotton mills, a West
Helena concern. About 12 bules wtr#
burned or badly chared.
Rank Robbed In Virginia.
(Associated i're*s Olsvateb.)
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 7.—Burjlara
blew the vault of the bank of
and Surrey, at Wakefield, thirty i
west of Norfolk early today, and stole
between $25,000 and $38,06# in •••
curltles.
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Ingram, Charles W. Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 8, 1921, newspaper, February 8, 1921; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth470247/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.