Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-01-27
Washington

Statistics showing the actual bale
weight of cotton ginned during the
last season have been transmitted to
the senate by Secretary Hoover in re-
Spouse to a resolution by Senator
Smith DEM Of South Carolina.
Figures showing the growth in fed
eral bonded warehouses for storing of
agricultural products have been COM
piled by the department of agriculture
for the information of delegates to the
national agricultural conference, which
meets here soon.
Senate Republicans. in party confer.
ence recently approved the allied debt
ref&nding bill, with the addition of a
provision that the interest rate on the
refunded bonds should not be less than
that fixed in the Liberty loan acts au-
thorizing the loans to the allied ma
tions.
George Washington Yarbrough,
hlgh'school teacher of Roanoke, Ala,
and rated as the welterweight cham.
pion OF the American expeditionary
forces, told senate investigating com.
mittee that he had witnessed the shoot.
ing of an American soldier by firing
squad near the Chateau Thierry region
in July, 1918.
The invitation for the United States
to participate in the economic and H.
nancial conference at Genoa was re.
Geiyed at the state department recent.
~ from Ambassador Ricci, of Italy.
A provisional agreement was reach
ed by railway executives and heads
of the four railway brotherhoosls,
meeting at the instance of Secretary
Hoover, to submit wage and working
questions affecting train service EN-.
ployees to regional conferences for
adjustment II possible, without con-
tests before the railway labor board.
After presentation of testimony by
way OF denial, war department records.
submitted to the senate committee In.
vestigating charges that American sol.
diers had been hanged without trial in
France, showed that on the bodies of
two men dug up In the little cemetery
at Bazoilles, the ropes and black cans
in which they we're put to death ON
the gallows had not been removed
prior to burial.
Secretary Hughes, as head of the
American delegation to the Washing.
ton conference, defined at a meeting
of the Far Eastern committee the
American policy concerning tho open
door In China, his statement 1t was
said being based on note he sent
as secretary Of stateto Alfred SEE, the
Chinese minister.
The German government has noti.,
fled the American government that
Alanson b. Houghton, now member of
the house from New York, will be &C.
cepted as ambassador and the name of
Mr.. Houghton will be sent to the sen.
ate soon.
Senate Republicans have voted In
party conference to press the allied
debt refunding bill and a soldiers
bonus bill, in that order. There was
a disagreement as to details of the
two measures, and the conference ad-
journed to continue its discussions at ,
a later date.
Retention by the war department of
nine main training centers, one In I
zach corps area, and of number of |
other special camps, has been recon- {
nended by General Pershing, chief of {
staff, at hearing before the house
military committee.
The Birmingham and Northwestern
abroad has applied to the interstate Z
commerce commission for permission /
o issue 100000 In bonds, which viii :
re used to refund existing issue of Sc. !
,urities.
An agreement has been reached by
he Chinese and Japanese delegates :
the coal and iron mines In b
he Kiao Chow leasehold in Shantung ?
hall be operated by company to be 4
ormed under special charter by the y
'hinese government The Japanese n
Vii be permitted to invest capital In !"
he enterprise not exceeding the to- a
al amount of Chinese capital. h