Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-01-26
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-
sponse 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
refunding 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, a
high.school teacher of Roanoke, Ala.
and rated as the welterweight cham,
pion OF the American expeditionary
forces, told a 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 fl.
nancial conference at Genoa was re,
ly from Ambassador Ricci, of Italy.
A provisional agreement was reach.
ed by railway executives and heads
of the four railway brotherhooLs
meeting at the instance of Secretary
Hoover, to submit wage and working
questions affecting train service EN-
pioyees to regional conferences fol
adjustment if 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 rones and black caps
in which they were 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 the open
door in China, his statement, it was
said being based on a 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 soldiers
bonus BILL in that order. There was
a disagreement as to details of the
two measures. and the conference ad
iourned to continue its discussions at
d later date.
Retention by the war department OF
nine main training centers. one in
each corps area, and of a number OF
other special camps, has been recon-
mended by General Pershing. chief OF
staff. at a hearing before the house
military committee.
The Birmingham and Northwestern
railroa4 has applied to the interstate
commerce commission for permission
to issue 100000 in bonds, which will
be used to refund existing issue OF Sc
curitieE.
An agreement has been reached by
the Chinese and Japanese delegates
whereby the coal and iron mines in
the Kiao-Chow leasehold in Shantung
shall be operated by company to be
formed under a special charter by the
Chinese government. The japanese
will be permitted TO invest capital in
the-enterprise not exceeding the to,
tai amount of Chinese capital.