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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
JAPAN FEELS HER
 WARSH|P RATIO IS
 NOT HIGH ENOUGH
More Than 250,0o0 Persons Would Be Thrown Out of Work If Proposal Is
 Accepted
By Associated Press

Washington, November 15.-Japan feels that her ratio of warship ton mage is not high enough under the American proposals, it was said to- night by members of the Japanese delegation.
 During Admiral Kato's speech at the plenary session Of the armament conference today his statement that Japan would suggest some moditica- tons in the tonnage basis for re- placement caused some speculation as to whether reference to regulating the capacity of shipyards so that new Warships could be built regularly or whether it meant that Japan favored a higher ratio of tonnage compared with the United States and Great Britain.
 Tonight's statement clears up this point and shows that Japan will later put forth the factors which lead her to believe that some increase of tonnage should be afforded her How much increase is desired was not ex- plained tonight but emphasis was laid upon the special conditions sur rounding Japan as an insular power in need of an adequate defensive fleet.
 Practical considerations are
 said to he behind the attitude of
 Japan, whose representatives re-
 iterated tonight that she has no
 ambition whatsoever to equal the
 navy of England or the United
 States. The probable develop
 ments of science in increasing the
 mobilization power of fleet to
 distant waters Is an offensives
 inc presence of naval bases near
 the shores of Japan, and the aug
 mented mobilization power of nm
 ndversary's fleet. when reduced
 to units, n1l enter into the Japa-
 nesc mind as indicating the wis-
 dom of higher ratio than
 to 10.
 The suggested increase will prob ably affect all classes, including The Japanese expressed confidence that the committee of ex- perts would understand their case, and that a ratio adjustment would rot in any way materially affect Japan's blanket acceptance of the proposals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
FiUe Women Are Included on the
 ArbuckIe Jury
By Associated Press

San Francisco. November 15.-The end of the second day in the man slaughter trial of Roscoe C. CFattyI Arbuckle saw Ii temporary jurors in the box, of them women.
 The questions did not differ ma terially from those asked at the open ing of the trial yesterday.
 Arbuckle remained almost aloof. He did not consult with counsel and at the recess periods remained by himself.
 There were vacant seats in the courtroom throughout the day all though the crow in front of the building was larger than yesterday Gavin McNab. chief defense counsel, said that there was a possibility of the jury being finally selected by to- morrow night
 The women in the box are all housewives and some of them have children, who. they said enjoyed the Arbttckle motion pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
OVER 100 PRESENT AS ALABAMA SYNOD
 BEGINS SESSIONS

Talladega. November 15.--(Special) With over 100 delegates, representing nearly every Southern Presbyterian church in the state of Alabama. the synod met tonight in the First Pres byterian church with lengthy ousi- ness docket to consider The meet ing was opened with sermon by Dr. Charles M. Boyd, retiring moder- ator of the First Presbyterian church of Tuscaloosa. Following this was the roll call and reception to the members of the synod
 Tomorrow morning just before the synodical observance of the Lords supper, Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden of Mo bile will preach. The membership of the Southern Presbyterian church in Alabama Is now nearly 25.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
ALL PARTIES HAVE HAD THEIR SAY ON
 IRISH QUESTION
UIsteriteS to Hold Protest Meeting Today Against Betrayal of UIster".
 Single Parliament
By Associated Press

London, November 15.-All par ties in Ireland, with the exception of the nationalists, who, however, are now largely incorporated with Sim Fein, have now had their say in the negotiations regarding the future of Ireland.
 The southern Unionists. who are opposed 10 a dual parliament for the island, saw Prime Minister Lloyd George today, Lord Middleton stating the case for them, while the Ulster ites had before them the govern ment's refusal of their counter pro- posals for a settlement of the Irish question. It was understood that the governments reply to Ulster con tained no new suggestions or pro- posals, leaving the situation appa- rently deadloeked.
 John Miller Andrews, secretary of labor In the Ulster cabinet, upon his return to Belfast today. made 1t clear in statement to the press that the governments proposal to Ulster was for single parliament for united Ireland, and that Ulster had replied tEat she must have separate parlia- ment. suggestion which neither the Sim Feiners nor the southern Union-. ists would agree 10.
 Protest meetings will be held In Ulster tomorrow against what the Ulsterites characterize as be trayal of Ulster" when. among oth- Londonderry and John Milne Bar bour, members of the Ulster delega- tion to London, will speak. It was considered unlikely, however, that anything will be done to break the apparent deadlock before the meet ing of the conservative party In Liv- erpool on Thursday, when the dele gates will have an opportunity of voting upon the straight resolutions that the recent offer to Sim Fein went beyond the Unionist opinion of this country" and that mo settle ment of the Irish question will be ae- ceptable which does not absolutely respect the position acquired by Ul- ster."
 Austen Chamberlain. government leader in the House of Commons, supporter of the Ulster position, will not be present at the party conven- tion to defend his stand, but 1t Is ex- pected will address public meet ing that evening Andrew Bonar Law, who the Ulsterites hoped would carry their standard, also is not eS- pected to attend
 The. so-caIlcd die hardS," who re- centfy attacked the governments Irish policy in the House of Com mons, will carry on fight against Mi Chamberlain in the convention, and 1t is expected that Lord Derby with whom Mir Chamberlain stay ing, and who is an advocate of peace in Ireland. will at least try to pour oil upon the troubled waters. The delegates to the convention number between 1.500 and 2,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
Say Harding Will Consider Release
 of Eugene v. Debs
By Associated Press

Peoria, TIL, November 15.-A telegram to the Illinois miners in convention here from the DebS defense league of Chicago stated that President Harding had promised to consider the release of Eugene V. Debs from federal prison ms soon as n conference on the T ,ation of armament is
 risk of having their K < revoked, the miners to- >e 5decided to rush S6O.OOO worth s( provisions to Kansns miners and their families.
 A motion was adopted to have the SO0,000 monthly contribution from Illinois miners toward the support of the Kansas miners start in the November mine pay. ments. The monthly contribution will he continued indefinitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
SMITH PREDICTS WORLD SHORTAGE OF COTTON

Washington November 15.-Predic- tfon of a. world shortage of cotton next summer was made in the Senate today by-Senator Smith, democrat or South Carolina in a speech analyz- ing the cotton consumption for Octo- Der made public by the census bu- reau. Should the rate of consum- ing for the ensuing months equal or exceed that of October. he said. there would not be a bale o6 American cotton in existence by next August l..
 In the course of his speech Mir. Smith digressed to discuss what he said was the failure of congressional action intended to aid the farmers. asserting that it seemed the only hope for the agricultural interests lay In the formation of their own CO., operative selling agencies and the es- tablishn8ent of their own banks. He added that relief legislation thus far had been converted each time into "breastworks behind which the inter ests opposed to /the farmers en- trenched themselves to destroy the farmers profits"
 Exports and domestic consumption of cotton for October aggregated I see. 900 bales, which. according to the senator. constitutes a record for monthly disposition of the product.
 '"At any rate" he continued, the exports and consumption between last August and next August 1 will be more than 16.00o.000 bales, and the best estimate of the visible supply that can be obtained shows only about 12.50O, 900 or 13,0o0,o00 bales.
 A carry over of about 100000 bales was estimated by MT. smith. while this years crop he believed would not exceed 100000 bales. He made his figures liberal, he added. but found no way to bring the two totals any way near together.
 Mir Smith ' reviewed the many "cries" which he said had forced the cotton prices down, and told the Sem ate that all of the 'menacing things sforeseen by the trade. including the rail strike had been put out of the way. yet the price remained low. He declared. however that the country never would see cotton sell as LOW again, expressing the belief that American cotton crops hereafter would fall below the 10-year average, which he said was slightly above -2,- 100000 bales
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
TEXT OF BALFOUR'S
 ADDRESS ACCEPTING
 HUGHES PROPOSALS

morable words which have now gone round and found an echo in every quarter of the. civilized world, 1t came as a shock of profound sur prise. It excited the sort of emo tions we have when some wholly new event suddenly springs into view and we felt that new chapter in the historys of world reconstruction had been war opened.
 MT Chairman, the absolute sim plicity of the procedure, the easy transition ana the great dramatic climax, were the perfection of art which shows that the highest art and the most perfect simplicity are very often, indeed, very commonly com bined.
 Now, I said l would explain if ] was allowed why l venture to rise first today to deal with the subject which IS in all our hearts. As have hinted 1t is because the British Elm pire and Great Britain, these two together, are more profoundly con cerned with all that touches matters naval that it is possible for any oth- CT nation to be. and this not, be- lieve me, for any reasons of ambi- ton. not for any reasons drawn from history or tradition but from the hard brutal necessities of claims and obvious factsa
 There never has been in. the his tory of the world great empire con- stituted as the British Empire is. Y Is fact. no doubt, familiar to every body whom I am addressing at the present moment, but has everybody whom I am addressing imaginative.y conceived precisely what the situa- ton of the British Empire Is in this connection?
 U. S. Protected
 Most of my audience are citizens of the United States. The United States stands soidly, impregnable, self-sufficient, all it's lines of com munications protected, doubly pro- tected, completely protected from any conceivable hostile act It is no. merely that you are 100000 of pop : ulation: it is not that you are tho wealthiest country In the world; II Is that the whole configuration Of your country, the geographical posi- tion of your country is such that yoI are wholly immune from the particu- lar perils to which, from the nature of the case, the British Empire is subject.
 
 your western states, for whose
 safety you are responsible, were
 suddenly removed 10000 miles
 across the sea. Supposing thnt you found that the very heart of your empire, the very heart of this great state, was a small, a crowded, island depending for
 oversea trade not merely, not chiefly, for its luxuries, hut de- beading upon overyeas communi-
 cation for the ratv material of those manufacturea by which its
 population lives, depending upon the same oversea communication
 for which they subsist. Suppos- | ing 1t was n familiar thought in I your minds there never were at
 any moment of the year within | the l'-sits of your state more l ~sontInued on Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
BrotherhoodS Plan to Meet Demands
 of the Railroads
By Associated Press

Chicago, November 15.-Plans of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Bremen and Enginemen to meet demands of the railroads for revision of rules and working conditions agreements and for further wage cuts were completed today at the close Of a two-day session of $50 general chairmen and officials.
 Requests from 9S railroads for re- vision of rules and working condi tions were considered, and the coun- ter demands formulated MT. Stone announced tonight the unions were agreed on concerted programme in the rules cases.
 Announcement was made that the four big brotherhoods have signed agreements with roads in the eastern. western and southeastern districts for setting up adjustment boards. provided for in the Esch- -Cummins transportation act. Two assistant grand chiefs will represent the en- Eineers on the boards, F. A. Burgess on the southeastern and H. ?. Daugherty on the western. Repre- sentatives of the other unions have not been selected.
 Organization of the board is ex- pected to speed up the work of thu United States labor board by reliev- ing It's docket of the hundreds of petty cases of individual grievances. All such disputes will be first re- ferred to the nearest adjustment board for arbitration and only In event of a deadlock on the board will the case come before the government tribunal here.
 Each of the boards is to have eight members. one from each of the broth- erhoods and four representing the roads in it's territory. Meetings will be held monthly in New York; Wash ington and Chicago. The agreements run for one year and may be renewed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
OF STOCK EXCHANGES
 URGED BY HEFL|N
Conner Urges Senator to Get Behind Dial Amendment as Solution of Cotton
 Problem
By HUGH ". ROBERTS Washington Bureau, The Age-He erald,
 SOC Davidson Building


 Washington, November 15.-(Spe- cial )-With the supply of cotton un- able to meet the demand, thre south ern senators, Smith of South Carolina, Heflin of Alabama and Watson Of Georgia, delivered speeches in the Senate this afternoon constituting joint inquiry into the market price, which Is still far below the cost or production. There is no explanation or justification for the situation, ac- cordine to Senator Smith. Senator Watson proceeded against the fed eral reserve board. Senator Heflin urged the "decapitation" of the stock exchanges of New York and New Or leans, and In addition charged that the federal resrve board was chiefly responsible for the plight of the farmer.
 Conner Urge support
 In the meantime. ex-Senator Conner of Alabama has made an appeal to Senator Heflin to get behind the Dial amendment as solution of the rroo- lem he would solves. The snator, who introduced the amendment of which the Dial proposition Is the se- quence. wrote Senator Heflin'
 Your of November 3. stating that on the return of Senator Smith from South Carolina you would discass with him an amendment to the cotton futures act. Is received, Until your letter came I was under impression that all of you were actively pl edged to Senator Dial, who, I am sure, is earnestly trying so to amend the act as to make it operative.
 Kindly let me suggest that this measure is of the greatest import ance to the farming interests. Sem ator smith has never impressed me as being earnestly at work for an improvement in the cotton futures act He was directly against what l was trying to do, and 1 know that the passage of my amendment would have gratly helped. Senator piafs bill Is much better than mine"
 Senator Dial believes that all cem- ocratic senators. with the exception of Ransdell of Louisiana. will event ually support his amendment. and that the solutioin of the problem, which all cotton oratods are attempt ing to reach. will have been found.
 In addition to the foregoing. ex- Senator Conner urged Senator Heflin to lend his energy an dtalerft to a solution of the freight rate problem. In that connection he writes: Also We are at work trying to get the freght rates on farm commodities greatly reduced in Alabama. as dur ing the war the most outrageous ex- captions were made on cotton, cot ton products. corn, wheat, etc, and I believe that Congress will nave greatly to impress the interstate commerce commission and the rail- roads themselves to get anything like adequate relief. There Is noth- ing right in the payment of negro brakeman or fireman s200 and $500 a month and first-class farm iaborer s20 a month.
 Please put your mind and energy on these two questions, as they are very important"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
STRIKERS RETURN
 TO WORK TODAY
By Assoclated Press

New York. November 15.-Several thousand of the 6o,oOo striking gar ment workers will return to work tomorrow morning in the shops of 40 manufacturers who have signed the working agreements with the union heads. it was announced tonight at the strikers headquarters.
 More than 500 applications have been received from manufacturers who ask their striking employees to return to work on the old weekly pay basis, members of the agreement committee of the strikers said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
Resolution Calls for StOppage of All
 Work on BaftleshipS
By Associnted Press

Washington, November I5.-A resolution directing inc Secretary of the Navy to stOp all work md expenditures on nine battleships nnd battle cruisers now in various stages of construction nt private and government shipyards Mns introduced today by Representa- tive Brittin. Illinois, ranking re- publican on the House committee.
 The bnttleShips named in inc resolution were the Colorado, Washington, West Virginia, south Dakota, Indiana. Montana. North Carolina, Iowa and Massnchu- setts. The bntIe cruisers speei- fled nre the Lexington. ConsteIln- ton, SarntoEn, Ranger, Constitu- ton and United States.
 ''Because of the considerations" the resolution declared. "of matt tcrs of agreement other than na- val armament it is probable that the disarmament conference may continue in session for several months before n final under standing and satisfactory cOnelu- sion has been reachcd.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
CYST OF THE NEWS


 State fails to produce stove In "BIuebeard- trial. Hays says taxation system destroys incentive to save.
 Brotherhoods plan to meet the de- mands of the roads. Resolution calls for stoppage of all work on battieships.
 STATE Tax league case comes up on De- cember 2.
 Anti-stiIl law is declared valid by court of appeals.
 Seek to prevent abandonment of T., A. S G. railway.
 Unusual robbery case Is reported nt Decatur.
 Houston power company seeks to dnm the Chattaw hatchie. Calhoun pig and chicken show will be held next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
Rx Associated Press


 Washington, November 15.-The of- ficial text of Arthur Balfour's ad- dress at today's session of the arma- ment conference follows:
 "Mr. Chairman. you have invited those who desire to continue the dis cussion which began on Saturday last. I think it would be very unfor- tunate if we were to arrow Saturday to pass without some further obser- vation on The part of those to whom you, MT. Chairman, lscdressed your speech, and, if for any reason which I shall venture to explain in a mo- ment, l am the first to take up the challenge, 1t is because of all the powers here assembled the country which 1 represent is, as everybody knows, the most intimately interested in all naval questions.
 "Statesmen of all countries are beginning to discover that the labors and difficulties of peace are almost as ardous and require almost as great qua ities as those which are demanded for the conduct of sue cessful war.
 These struggles to restore the world to the condition of equilibrium. so violently interferred with by five years of war, is one that taxes and must tax the efforts of everybody And I congratulate you, If l may, MT Chairman on the fact that you have added the neY anniversary which will henceforth be celebrated in con- nection with this movement toward reconstruction in the same spirit Tn which we welcomed the anniversary celebrated only a few hours ago, on .he day on which hostilities came to an end. If November II, in the minds of the allied and associated ! powers, Tn the minds perhaps not less of all the neutrals--if that IS fl date imprinted on grateful hearts. I think November 12 will also prove to be an anniversary welcomed and thought of in grateful spirit oy those who in the future shall look back upon the ardous struggle now being made by the civilized nations of the world. not merely to restore pre-war conditions, but to see that war conditions shall never again exist.
 Memorable Proceedings "I count myself among the fortu- nate of the earth in that l was pres ent. and to that extent had snare i in the proceedings of last saturday. They were memorable indeed. The secret was admirably kept hope l that all the secrets. so long as they ought to be secrets. of our discussions will be as well kept. In my less an- l guine mood l have doubts
 But however, that may be, the se- | cret in this case was most admirably kept, and I listened to speech which I I thought eloquent. appropriate. in every way a fitting prelude to the work of the conference which was about to open or which indeed had been opened by the President. without supposing that anything very dra- matic laid behind. And suddenly I
 became aware, as I suppose all pres ent became aware. that they were l listening not merely at an eloquent 1 and admirable speech, but at great I historical event. It was led up with such art. The transition seemed so
 natural that when the blow fell.
 when the speaker uttered the me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
sHIPBuILDING WOULD
 RE HARD HIT BY PLAN

Tckio, November l5,-Observations by the heads of the leading Japanese shipbuilding yards on the American proposal for the limitation of naval arnaments may be summarized some what as follows:
 The Japanese steel and, iron indus- try, nearly half of which is depend- ent upon armament production, will be hard hit if the limitation plan is realized. A suspension of warship building by three of the most inn portant yards in Japan would mean tic unemplos uent Of twesthfrds of their workmen. estimated at 25o,oo0 persons.
 The English and American unem- ployed could be absorbed in other peaceable industries, whereas Japan could hope for no such alternative. This matter is considered particu- larly serious at the present time. when the Japanese popular mind is all ready unsettled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-16
OIL BURNS

Charleston, $. C.. November l5.- blaze in oil in still at the refinery of the Standard oil company of New Jersey just outside of the city of Charleston occurred tonight City fire apparatus responded to an alarm from a box at the boundary and as- sisted in subduing the blaze.
 No statement of the damage has been obtainable thus far At no time did the fire appear likely to develop into d conflagration. so far as on- lockers could tell. The burning of the still was spectacular. flames ascend- ing in big puffs.