Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1921 — Page 9

JAPS TO INSIST ON INCREASED SHIP TONNAGE Nipponese Not Satisfied With Limitation Proposed in Hughes Program. WISH 10 PER CENT BOOST By AI. BRADFORD. WASHINGTON, Nov. ID.—Japan will firmly insist on an increase in capital ship tonnage over that allowed her In the Hughes proposal tor limitation of naval armament, according to authoritative Japanese quarters today. The Japanese believe their dreadnaught tonnage, after the American program for limitation of naval armament is put into effect, should te TO per cent as great as that of the United States and Great Rritain. instead of 60 per cent,' as proposed by Secretary Hughes. This significant indication was obtained following the vigorous statement by a high American spokesman of this government's policy regarding capital ship tonnage in which the distinct impression was given that the United States would oppose moves from Japan or any other power for increased capital ship tonnage. The United States and Japan thus seem to be in a position of almost direct opposition on the question of limitation of nnvai armament, and the first fight of the conference is threatened. These salient points stood out today in the Japanese situation regarding the l.aval question in the conference on limitation of armament: 1. The Japanese government and delegation here has fixed a set ratio of 70 Ber cent for the Japanese navy in comparison with the American and British navies—which Nippon is understood to he prepared to insist upon as the absolute minimum for Japan in capital ships. t -■ This is a considered opinion of the Japanese government, believed to have been settled on in Tokio before the Japanese delegates left for Washington and Is not a counter-proposal hurriedly decided on by the Japanese plenipotentiaries here after the Hughes proposal was presented. 3. The increased ratio for the Japanese navy is said already to have been presented definitely by the Japanese delegation to the conference as an amendment to that part of the Hughes program. JAPANESE NAVAL MEN CONVINCED OP NEEDS. The Japanese navy to a man is said to be firmly convinced that the empire must have a navy 70 per cetn as strong as Great Britain and the United States for the proper defense of the country against a fleet that any power might send to Far Eastern waters. High officers of tbe Japanese navy have come to this conviction as the result of their fleet maneuvers and their war games over charts of the Pacific. It is worthy of note that Admiral Baron Kato, the minister of the imperial Japanese navy, is directing his country's stand here. lie is considered one of the strongest men in Japan today and is the highest ranking member of the government next to the premier. TYPE OF VESSEL REMAINS MYSTERY. The Japanese counter-proposal is beIfeved to have asked not only for an Increase in Japan's capital ship tonnage, but to have stated that in a certain type of vessel of strictly defensive chracter, Japan wants to approximate the tonnage Bf the greater navies, w it now known that this type of vessel was n'< the light cruiser or the submarine, as was first supposed. However, what vessel is referred to Is still a mystery—Copyright, 1921, by United Press.

REPORT THIRTEEN REBELS KILLED Battle Believed End of Present Revolution. CALEXICO, Mexico, Nor. 10—Thirteen of a band of fifty rebels were killed Thursday afternoon In a battle In a canyon seventeen miles southwest of Tecate. In the northern district of Lower California, according to (fficial reports received at Mexicali today by General Rodriguez, commander of the Mexican federal forces In that territory. The government troops wet: under command of Colonel Armento. Prisoners taken In the battle were executed. General Rodriguez said. General Rodriguez said he considered this defeat of the rebels practically the end of the revolutionary movement in Lower California. BELFAST SCENE OF GUN BATTLE Fifteen in Fight Dispersed by Armored Car. BELFAST, Nov. 19. —Fifteen gunmen lgbt a thrilling battle In the darkened greets of Belfast today. It was the third affray of the week. An armored car swooped on the Bally Maccarett area where the fight was in progress and scattered the contending parties after one man had been wounded. LONDON. Nov. 19. —Premier Lloyd George Intends to renew negotiations with Sir James Craig, Ulster premier, on Tuesday, with a view to reaching a basis of agreement for settlement of the Irish situation, it was announced today. Lloyd George is more optimistic that he will be able to overcome Ulster's objections to entering a pan-Ireland parliament, it was stated. It was believed the premier would Invite both the Sinn Fein and Ulster representatives to a conference on Tuesday to discuss the entire Irish situation. Births Stephen and Mabel Walsh, 2510 South Meridian, boy. Walter and Anna Wright, 401 Haugh. girl. Roger and Mary McGuire, 839 Chadwick. girl. Alfred and Mamie Lawson, 1710 Cruft, girl. Arthur and Clara Lockwood, 1125 Woodlawn. girl. Chester and Sarah Minor, 1010 Haugh, boy. Edward and Eva Beach. 1942 West New York, girl. Clarence and Alpha McClain, city hospital, Samuei .. Folkerth, 328 North Bancroft, boy. Pleasant and Bertha Martin, 821 South ; Noble, boy. Alfred and La Melle Ramsev, 904 Key- j stone, girl. Walter and Luciel Baxter, 1133 Healing. boy. Harley and Lola Pendergast, 2011 Brookside, girl. Deaths Georgle Evers, 55, 823 Woodlawn, diabetes mellitus. Joseph' F. David. 66, 411 South Pine, chronic parenchymatous nephritis. Walter Henry Auoh, 10 mouths, ICO6 I North Rural, meningitis. George M. Crane. 57. Methodist Hos- i pital. peritonitis. Jennett Bernice Xiecum, 9, 1101 Bacon diphtheria. BOND ISSUE O. K’d. The Indiana Power Company was authorized by the public sendee commission toady to Issue SSOO,OO<F in 8 per cent j notes. I

HARDING WILL FIGHT SHY OF ‘TREATY’ PACT (Continued From Page One.) / executive and subject to emasculation or destruction by a hostile Senate. SEEK TO AVOID ALLIANCE. The Harding-Hughes policy is not to involve the United States in an alliance. , The President lias not thought thus to discard the principles for which he con- ■ tended as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and o's the Senate and as a candidate for the presidency. Nothing : is further from his mind. Nor has Mr. j Hughes any desire to Involve America I in ommittments of a political nature. Certainly, he would not wish to do so by avoiding an actual covenant with other powers. The Harding program contemplates something more definite than the Lans-ing-Ishii agreement. The language of the three or four or nine-power agreement would not lend itself to any such broad and numerous interpretations as the exchange of notes between Mr. Lansing and Viscount Ishil. Du the whole the Harding-Hughes program Is regarded as Senate-proof. For example, the sanction of Congress Is not held to be necessary for the scrapping of the $3.'i0,0<.0,000 of figlding crafts as proposed by the Secretary of Stute. Congress could not, except by affirmative action flying in the face of universal sentiment, prohibit the President scrapping dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, building and built, should the nations of the world agree to the suggestions maae to the conference in the historic Hughes speech. STATUTES HELD AS VALID. Administration leaders view existing statutes as adequate to permit them to proceed to an absolute consummation or the Hughes ideals without any haggling debate by congressional partisans. There is on the statute books authority for the president to permit by executive order the Navy Department to destroy, to sell to other governments or to private Interests any vessel of the Navy held by the experts to have no further use for the United States. That is a very broad power. Congress in granting it many years ago, never pictured any such wholesale scrapping of ships as Mr. Hughes has proposed. It is not, of course, contended that Congress will have nothing to say about | this Administration program for a reduction of the navies of the world. The con- ; stitutional power to raise armies and navies cannot be removed from Capitol j Hill by all the agreements, treaties or ; understandings which Ingenuous states- ! men might devise. Therefore, any program for a reduction of the United States Navy would have to be sanctioned by Congress. The thing works out in rather simple style. Suppose, for example, the Admin- : istration agreed with other nations not i to build any more capital ship sand only a certain amount of submarines. At the first regular session of Congress foliowj ing the conclusion of such an agreement ! it would be necessary for the Navy Department to prepare estimates ‘of ap propriations for the ensuing fiscal year. PUBLIC OPINION* WOULD CONTROL. Those estimates would go to the Presl I dent and from him to the director of the | budget. Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes be | ing at the moment thar august otficial. From General Dawes they would go to ' tbe capitol. Then, If It wished. Con- ■ gress would have the power under the Constitution to thrffw the budget dli rector's estimates for appropriations in , some convenient capitol waste basket and ; could make any and all the appropriations it pleased for the Navy. It could, if it were so inclined, '‘authorize and direct" the President to begin I immediately tbe construction of a dozen ■mper-fcoods such as Great Britain had : planned, or a dozen 45.000-ton battle ; cruisers of great power and speed and cruising radius such as Japan had contemplated. But, always, back of such , congressional action would have to be a : reversal of the public sentiment of Amer- ! lea. now supporting Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes with such effective solidarity. I The point of the matter is that Congress i representing the people has the last word —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Com 1 pany.

Entire 'flA S A Starting Week Sunday Devil Within By George Allen England Directed by Bernard Durning A dramatic tale of the Southern seas, in which brute strength succumbs to mental terror of a curse, and good emerges from evil. Monte Bank’s Comedy, “Squirrel Food,” and a “Bill and Bob” Boy Scout Subject, “Trapping the Skunk.”

Department Fixes Insurance Deposits Sums that must be deposited with, the State insurance department by mutual Insurance companies operating in Indiana were announced today by the insurance commission. Fire insurance must deposit $10,000; compensation companies, | 123,000; assessment, life and accident j companies, $2,000. Others must deposit j securities equal to a sum five times that. of the largest risk. The same rule ap- | piies to companies not organized in In-' diana unless they can show they have made similar deposits in their own ' States. The deposits must be made before Jan. 1, or licenses will be revoked, according to the ruling. SOUND U. S. ON WORLD CONFAB ON ECONOMICS (Continued From rage One.) | faulted, will be kept up. France also ! wants to realize something out of the j millions which she poured into the old J Russian government. France’s spokesmen point out that France is also a great creditor nation, and could she b>lt realize ou her invest- j meuts she would be in a position to discharge her obligations to Great Britain and the I’nited States. Great Britain is in much the same po- I sition France and Italy are heavy j in her debt —more in amount than Great Britain owes the United States. Thus far the projectors of the plan j have been unable to get definite nssur- i an re* of American participation. Admin- : istration spokesmen have replied infer ! mally that one stew on the fire at a time Is enough and that until the present eon- I fen-nee takes some definite form of ac- ' compllshment, the Administration does not care to put on another. The sums which foreign nations owe the United States, with accumulated in- j terest, are, in round figures: Great Britain. $4, .">00,000,090: France, $3,300,000,000; Italy, $2,250,000,000: Belgium, *500.00,000; Germany, $275,000,000; Russia, $250,0Ut.000. Boumanla,s3s,ooo,ooo; Serbia (Jugo-Slavla). $30,000,000; Greece, $25009.000; t’zeeho-Slovakia, $75,000,000. There are other smaller amounts of less consequence owed by little nations.— Copyright, 1921, by International News Service. MUSCLE SHOALS UP TO EDISON Secretary Weeks Will Stand by Inventor’s Estimates. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—Major details of Henry Ford's offer to buy the Muscle Shoals project were agreed upon at a bedside conference between Ford and Secriary of War Weeks last night. Weeks, who is 111, called Ford )n. Thomas Edison was selected to go with Ford to Muscle Shoals and make a final estimate of tbe cost of completing the Wilson power dam. Ford left here lest night for a conference with Edison in New York. Government englne-Ts" report* on the cost of finishing the dnm vary a* much ht SIS,OtX),WK!. One Government estimate places the cost of .*23,000,000; another fixes it close to $45.000,000. —Copyright, 1921, by United Presa. Fountain town Store Looted by Robbers Indlanapon* police were notified today that a general store owned. by Moore Si Van Fkoik at Fountalntown. twenty miles southeast of this city, had been burglariaed last night. The thieves took cl®thing, foodstuff* and automobile tires o fa total value of between Sso'< and s6iKl. An automobile was used to haul the loot a way.. VEVAY COirNUIL JUST ACT. The next mayor of Yevay probably will be appointed by the new city council of that city, as a result of a ruling today by U. S. Lesh, attorney general. Tbe vote resulted In a tie, and accord ing to the ruling, tha office must be filled by the council.

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IN THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE (Continued From Page Six.) ters, whether of literature, art or music. ‘■The civic spirit of these players and this manager in giving this opportunity to the children Is notable. It is worth . hundreds of fine speeches and impressive gestures. Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe | are unselfishly sowing seeds for the fu- j ture. Their devotion to the theater has never been better shown than in the presenting of their services to the younger j generation and particularly to that sec tion which otherwise would not have the chance of seeing wliat the real theater means. “At the closo of the matinee, Mr. Sothern presented his wife, Julia Marlowe, to the audience. Mr. Sothern briefly addressed the children and told them how when Miss Marlowe was a girl of their own age she happened to see a performance of one of Shakespeare’s plays and became so interested that she saved her pennieb earned by helping h;r uotlier in the housework and bought the p’ays one by one in a cheap edition until she possessed them all; how the rinding of them inspired her with a desire to act them; how she persisted in this ambition against the greatest of financial handicaps and discouragements and how she eventually won her opportunity after three years of intense and ceaseless study. He added that he hoped her life might be an inspiration to those in the theater and that perhaps there might even be someone there who might some day do the same tiling Miss Marlowe had accomplished. If ever the actor was proud of his lovely wife, he was never happier than in the cheers which followed. “Mr. Sothern also spoke of the ridiculous action of the Lord Chief Justice and the Auditors of School Funds in England in refusing to pay a bill of $15,000 for the presenting of classic plays for school children, maintaining that Shakespeare was not educational. That the great arbiter of the' Englisn language was officially branded as not educational by the government of the race of which he is the chief glory and honor is disgraceful. but fortunately governments are not always the spikemcn of the people and the English-speaking nations have more chan vindicated themselves on this point.” Tlie Sothems are to be congratulated upon their efforts in giving the school children of New Y'ork opportunity to witness the best presentation of “Hamlet” that the moderu stage can offer. Anew theater school has opened in Now York City, according to data sent to this department. The School of the Theater, an organlza tion founded and directed by some of the most prominent persons associated with the theater, opened Nor. 15 in the Lexington theater building, Lexington avenue and Fifty First street. Those responsible for this new development in stage preparation are Walter Hampden, George A r lisa, Elsie Ferguson, Frank Craven. Arthur Hopkins, Ito tie rt Edmond Jones, Jose Ruben. Ernest Trues. Rachel Grot hers. Kenneth ifaegow-aa. Brook Pemberton. William Lyon Phelps, Arthur Ilohl, Stuart Wallacr and Clare Tree Major. An interesting feature of this new school 1* the development of an exper! men!*! theater, which will !* ♦pirated ' by the students under profcsdanal direcf tion. The stage is as large as many of the regular theater stages, the tiieory of the directors being that students cannot be properly prepared for profewlonal work on a <'laTi>'-m stage. Students will receive not less than six month*'' work in tills theater before being graduated and the director* expect to make such Interest ing offerings, that the theater will roon be running cn * regular schedule of six nights a week. la this way the students w!U receive sll the advantages of a working stock company under the (in est professional direction, while they arc at the same time working at their technical development. The School of the Theater Uage will also serve tbe genera] theater in many ways. It wili offer a medium for experimentation to scenic artists and playwrights. and it may bo nsed as a tryout theater by producers. It will giro to foreign artists and to those from other

States an opportunity to introduce thfeir work to New York. A special course of lectures by Kenneth Macgowan began last Monday and a special class in scenic design under Gorelik began at the same time. Entrance to both theses classes as well as to the, regular classes in dancing, fencing, voice diction and the other elements of theatrical technique may be arranged for persons interested only in these subjects. BUSH DENTES ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP. A man supposed to be the one who attempted to hold up the office of the J. A. Knight Coal and lee Company, 420 Chase

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street, is held by the police under high bond today on a charge of vagrancy. He gave his name as Herbert Bush, 23, 537 Chase street. Bush denied all charges, asserting that he was repairing an automobile for two local dentists at the time the attempt to rob the store was made. He will be held pending investigation. Cleveland Cops Shoot Woman; Face Charges CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 19.—Mrs. Antionette Nantoro, 28, is seriously wounded

and two Cleveland patrolmen, Martin Collan and William McGonigal, are in jail as the result of a shooting affray last night. Collan is charged with shooting to kill and McGonigal with shooting to wound. The charges against the patrolmen were made by their superior officers after an investigation at the police station this morning at which more than seventy-five witnesses were examined. TRAINING THE BLIND. LONDON, Nov. 19.—The board of education has been requested to establish ten slx-ddy schools for blind children up to the age of 16.

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Fires Bullet Into Own Head; May Die Special to The Times. MUNCIE, lnd., Nov. 19.—Virgil Eppard, 20, factory employe, last night fired a bullet from a .32-caliber revolver into his head and physicians today say he has little chance to recover. The shooting occurred on the street, In front of the home of Miss Pearl Petty, 19, where Eppard had been calling.

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