The Ocala banner., 1921-11-18

road workers, that the United States
railroad labor board had adopted
and is ready to announce many
working rules which labor considers
gunfavorable
2. To discuss information, said
to be in the hands of unions, that rail-
roads were to post notices of wage
cut this week.
Considerable Improvement in
health after several weeks of treat
ment in sanitarium at Albany, N. Y,
Representative Claud Kitchin, demo-
cratic floor leader in the house, left
Washington Tuesday to return to his
home at Scotland Neck, N. C.
Kitchin told colleagues he is con-
fident he will be able to resume act
i've work in thehouse at the Decem-
ber session.
Henry Ford plans. to revolutionize
transportation on the Ohio river by a
fleet of new type, self propelled cargo
vessels, it became known here today.
The vessel line would connect with
Ford's Detroit and Ironton Railroad
at IrOnton, Ohio, on the Ohio river.
New Judge for Florida?
! Favorable report on the Walsh bill
to create % additional federal dis
trict judges, was ordered today by
the house judiciary committee, SINH
lar legislation is pending before a
senate committee and has been re-
commended by Attorney General
Daugherty and Chief Justice Taft.
The bill, which authorizes temper.
ary transfer of judges to other dis
tricts to relieve docket congestion,
creates among others one new dis
trict judgeship in eastern Virginia
and southern Florida.
Discovery of the existence of great
er stars than Betelgeuse, the giant
star whose diameter was measured at
300,000,000 miles, was announced by
Prof. A. Nicholson, in an address be-
fore the meeting of the National
Academy of Science at Chicago.
Richard Wisenfield, of Boston
marine, was held for the federal
grand jury Tuesday on a charge of
murder for the shooting of Quincy C.
Rouden, of Panama City, Fla, at the
| navy yard on October 23. Lieut.. Ed
ward S. Shaw testified at a hearing
before United States Commissioner
at which Wisenfeld said he intended
to kill Rouden but gave no reason. No |
witnesses were called by the defense. |
Geat Britain i'm Agreement
| A London special says that Great |
! Britain is well content to be the naval /
equal of America; her position is the
same as that of America the Sunday |
Express owned by Lord Beaverbrook |
said editorially discussing proposals |
outlined by the United States for limit
ing navies
THE American naval disarmament
plan is a good basis for discussion.
Great Britain requires and desir-
es no more than strength equal to
that of the strongest naval power for
the security of her linked nations"
j Sir Cyprian Bridge, admiral and
a member of the British governments
committee on heavy ornaments, who
has written book on naval war
/ fare" said:
Secretary Hughes proposals con-
stitute question of strength and |
i equality of the British, Japanese, and
American navies quite in accordance
with British ideals
The clause permitting the COM |
/ pletion of six new American battle
ships can hardly be reconciled with
/ the idea of equality, because Ameri- |
ca is building the newest models of
war craft"
/ The United States Leads the Way
A 10-year naval holiday in naval
! constructions, involving tremen-
dous scrapping of ships now on the
ways or contemplated by the United
States, Great Britain and Japan, was
proposed to the conference on the
limitation of ornaments by Secretary |
Hughes at the opening session of the
| United States proposals
! Briefly, the American proposals are
That there Immediately be destroy
ed by the navies of the three great
i powers sc capital fighting ships and
total tonnage of 1,S7S.04S tons.