Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1921 — Page 9

JAP EXCEPTIONS CHIEF HITCH IN NAVALPROGRAM Haggling Spirit Must Be Met and Overcome by Experts in Closed Sessions. WASHINGTON', Not. 24.—1f Japan Is permitted to keep the Mut*u r her new 3-1.000 ton battleship, the L'nited States is entitled to the Colorado, now nearing eompletlon at Cainden, N. J., and the British will be authorized to build anew ship of a type equal to or greater than the fnmous “hush ship” Hood. That Is the judgment of American naval officers who have studied the details of the capital ship phase of the Hughes proposal for the limitation of naval armaments, and have been apprised of the arguments of the Japanese in favor o* increasing Japan's ratio of capital tonnage. The American position, stated positively by Secretary Hughes on the opening day of the conference and setting forth the future strength of the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan on a basis 5-5-3 ns to capital ships, is not likely to be altered in principle. If inroads are made on the details of the program through the desire of Japan to keep certain ships now built or building, the capital ships allowed the United States and Great Britain probably would be increased to an amount which will pre--vjrve the 5-5-3 ratio, as nearly as possibly The battleships and battle cruisers actually left afloat after the program is made effective is to be the important consideration it was learned today from an Authoritative source. What is scrapped is regarded ns immaterial. The exact ratio of capital ships that may h:.ve obtained in the naval establishments of the three nations, with the present building programs included, also is regarded as material. Japanese reluctance to scrap the Mutxu and Japanese insistence that her navy, built, building and projected, bids fair to stand in 10 to 7 ratio to the navies of Great Britain and the United States, are the elements standing in the way of I speedy agreement on the naval liinlta- j tions proposal. Despite the official word, •‘progress” is j being made, the discussion of the Hughes j proposal now in the hands of the navai : committee, has become a controversy of naval experts, sufficiently recovered from the first shock of the Hughes announcement to show by a convincing array of figures how more and larger warships may be retained. There is Indication of virtual agreemeit on the capital ship program between tne experts of the United States and Great Britain. As ruefully as American naval officers regard the program which calls for the scrapping of nine great battleships and six battle cruisers now building, they realize the force of the Hughes

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Standing, Left to Right—Willard Murphy and Jesse O. Murphy. Sitting—John Murphy and his great grandson, Donald Murphy.

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I proposal and the moral advantage which I accrues to the American side of the argument because the l'nited States is taking 1 the greatest actual loss. The British [ patently do not wish to build more big I ships. The program suits them from the ground up because ft leaves their capital ships intact and permits them to abandon a building program which had not reached beyond the paper stage. The hitch, if the present difference of opinion can be called a hitch, comes from the Japanese, who are clearly maneuvering to keep the Mutan and what they conceive to be the slight advantage over the proposed 5-5-3, which they might have had if the present building programs of the three great naval nations were completed. As indicated by a high naval author- j

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and where he spent his entire life. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a worker in the Baptist Church. His sou, Williurd, his grandson, Jesse, and his great grandson, Donald, live at 1423 English iavenue.

ity, another phase of the expert discussion, serving perhaps to becloud the issue, Is the different method by which officers of the three nations estimate naval strength. It is more than a matter of mathematics, he said, intimating that the problem presented was not simply the naming of ships and the adding up of tonnage and guns.-—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. FIND 3 GUILTY OF SMUGGLING. PENSACOLA. Fla., Nov. 24.—Captain E. Wentzel, Engineer Johnson and Second Mate Kerzlnski of tile schooner Violet were late last night found guilty In the United State Court of smuggling Chinese Into this country from Cuba. Judge Sheppard deferred sentence.

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We Must Keep Faith With Those Who Died! For they kept faith with us! And now they are but a memory. We have left from them nothing but the priceless heritage of their patriotism, deathless even in death, of their devotion and their sacrifice. It is for us to build a monument to their memory—a shrine of patriotism for all mankind for all the ages. As they kept faith with us, we must keep faith with them. \

rr must BE DONE!

MASS MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT, 7:30 P. M. TOMLINSON HALL BE THERE!! 1 THE SERVICE CLUB

MEMBERS of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce are urged to attend the patriotic meeting in Tomlinson Hall, Friday evening at 7:30, as an expression of their belief that both the city and the county should proceed at once to provide ground for the World War Memorial Plaza. The good name of our community is at stake. Immediate action is imperative in order that we may keep faith with those whose memory we honor, as well as to provide a suitable national headquarters for those who served and came home. INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER of COMMERCE

THE War Memorial Plaza must GO THROUGH! We must not break our word. To carry through the War Memorial project is a sacred obligation to posterity, and to those brave men who gave. their lives for us in the storm and flame of battle. The State of Indiana and the Nation have turned their eyes on Indianapolis. We must not fail! There is no other course with honor. The State of Indiana, through the last legislature, has done its part and is ready to proceed without delay. The City of Indianapolis has pledged its participation in the project. Marion County, through the action of two of its County Commissioners, has reneged. Marion County, through two of its commissioners, has repudiated it3 promises, broken its word, to the State and to the City. Your will has been fairly and honestly carried out by your State Legislature. Your City government by its action is carrying out your desires. Your county government is betraying you, citizens of Indianapolis and Marion county, into a course of dishonor, of repudiated promises, of violated confidence, and defeated popular will. It must not be! The War Memorial Plaza must GO THROUGH! Mass Meeting Friday Night Friday night Tomlinson Hall will be the scene of a great mass meeting of citizens. Come! Thousands will show their determination to keep faith with their State and City and with our heroic dead. Every citizen who has the best interests of Indianapolis at heart will be there. Will you come?

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