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Automobile Thieves Should Hang Around Home Now
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W ASHINGTON.—The national motorvehlcle law passed bj both bouses at
congress, which President Wilson allowed to become operative without
bis signature, Is now in effect. The new law, which should aid in stamp
ing out the stolen ca{ menace, follows:
“Be It enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem
bled, that this act may be cited as the
national motorvehtde-theft act
“Section 2—That when used In
this act s '
“(a) The term 'motorvehlcle* shall
Include an automobile, automobile
truck, automobile wagon, motorcycle
or any other self-propelled vehicle not
designed for running on rails, (b) The
term interstate or foreign commerce’ as used in this act, shall include trans
portation from one state, territory or the District of Columbia to another
Mate, territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, qr from
4 foreign country t0 6py_&tate.J:errlfcoa3r or.tbe District okColnmhtn.-. —^—
‘‘Section 3—That whoever shall transpprt or cause to he transported in
Interstate or foreign commerce a motorvehlcle, knowing tho same to have
been stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by 1m-.
prisonraent of not more than five years, or both.
“Section 4—That whoever shall, with the Intent to deprive the owner of
• the possession thereof, receive, conceal, store, barter, sell or dispose of any
motorvehlcle, moving as, or which Is a part of, or which constitutes Interstate
% or foreign commerce, knowing the same -to have been stolon, shall be pun
ished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by Imprisonment of not more than
five years, or both.
/ “Section 5—That any person violating this act may be punished in any
district in or through which such motorvehlcle has been transported or, re
moved by such offender.”
It was shown during debate on the measure that automobiles stolen in the
United States in 1918 had an aggregate value of $27,000,000, and that automo
bile thieves cleared at least $5,000,000 on these thefts.
Largest Warship Is Negate of the Japanese Navy
T HE largest warship ever built was launched by Japan at Kure the other
day in the presence of the princes of the imperial family, says a Tokyo
report. It is named the Nagato. The keel was laid at Kure naval dockyard
August 28, 1917, but her building was
considerably delayed owing to the
scarcity of workers in consequence of
the war and to the change In the plan
of construction as the result of lessons
furnished by the Jutland battje. .
At first it was proposed to build
a ship of the Hyuga class with a dis
placement of 81,260 tons, but later her
tonnage was changed to 40,000. -
Soon the work of her equipment
and armament will be proceeded with
at the Kure dockyard, and on its com
pletion the building of the Kngu, the Nagato’s sister ship, will be commenced.
The Kagato'wlll be armed with 16-inch guns having 30-mile range and her
engines will be able to develop a speed of 25 knots. She will carry several
airplanes and will be armed with half a dozen antiaircraft guns.
—The Hood of the British navy has a displacjment of 30,000 tons, eight
15-inch guns and a speed of 30 khots.
The California of the United States navy has a displacement of 32,300
tons, 12 14-tnch guns and a speed of 21 knots.
The American navy has projected dreadnuughts that are larger than the
Nagato. America's new fighting ships are to have a displacement of 42,000
• tons, 12 16-inch guns ami a speed of 21 knots.
“Careless America Is Now Growing Less Careless”
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A N ADVANCE summary of the 1917 motallty'statistics received by the
national safety council from the United States census bureau seems to
indicate that “careless America is growing less careless. The total number
of depths caused by accidents dpring
Washington, Nov. 21.—Compromise
efforts to ratify the peabe treaty were
thrown into the background today by
developments strengthening the possi
bility that the whole controversy
might be transferred to the political
arena for a> decision by the people in
1920. ' »
Senator Lodge, chairman of the for
eign relations committee, and Re-
dared in a statement there “was no
room fpr further compromise” and
urged that the reservations of the
senate majority be carried into the
campaign.
There was no formal expression to
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately by President Wil
son and the administration senators,
but It developed that the President’s
senate supporters had no definite as
surances as yet that he would re-open
the subject for compromise by re-sub
mitting the treaty when the new ses
sion of congress begins December 1st
The declaration of Senator Lodge
reversed the position he and most
other Republican senators had taken
toward injection of the treaty into
politics, and was accepted in congres-
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1917 was 53,544 as against 60,072 dur
ing the previous year. Inasmuch as i
the death registration area takes in
only 70 per cent of the population, It Is
apparent that more than 76,000 per
sons were killed in accidents through
out the United States in that year.
The report received by the national
safety council summarizes the causes
of accidents as follows in part:
The greatest number of deaths
with a nadded suggestion'by Lodge’s
conference with Will H. Hays, the Re
publican national chairman, just be
fore the unsuccessful fight Wednes
day for ratification with the majority
reservations included.
In his letter advising Democratic
senators to vote against ratification
with the majority reservations, Pres
ident Wilson characterized them as
constituting a nullification of the
treaty, and some of his senate follow
ers do not consider it a remote pos
sibility that he may^fiecide to join the
issue and let the majority program
stand or* fall by a popular decision
in the campaign.
Should he take such » stand and de
cline to resubmit the treaty, let
matters stand for the present as they
are, ft was considered certain on all
sides tonight that the result would
be to put the ratification fight square
ly into the presidential contest. There
was nothing to establish definitely
that he would do so, however, and the
course of the administration senate
leaders during the day seemed to In
dicate the opposite. They continued
to talk compromise and predicted
that the Republicans would modify
their attitude, making it possible to
clear away the whole contfoversy be
fore the campaign opens.
They were confronted with the
fact, however, that the Republican
group of mild reservatlonists, on
whom hope of a compromise was
placed, had served notice that any
further compromise negotiations must
be conducted with the Republican
leader binfself. The closing stages of
the fight, which preceded the ratifica
tion vote, multiplied evidences of Re-
publican solidarity behind the reser
vation*, many decisions in the pre
liminary maneuvering being decided
by virtually strict party votes.
Even among the irreconcilable foes
of the treaty on the Republican side,
the statement of Senator Lodge was
accepted with satisfaction. Some of
this group have said openly they
would leave the party unless it de
clared next year for outright rejec
tion of the league of nations coven
ant, with or without reservationts, but
they took the view tonight that the
situation was developing with a sat
isfactory speed. By the time the na
tional convention met they predicted,
it would be ready to go further than
Senator Lo.lge in hi? statement. ,
The onlv expression of t»V Piesi-
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’ charged to ally one. accidental caus^.
11,114. or 14.9 per 100,000, is shown as from falls. Next to falls, the great
est nulnber of accidental deaths, 8,649, or 11.5 per 100,000, resulted from rail
road acoldehts and injuries.. . .i
BurnV excluding those received in conflagrations and in railroad, street
car and automobile accidents, were responsible for 6,830 deaths, or 9.1 per
100,000.
Deaths froba automobile accidents and injuries in 1917 totaled 6,724, or 'dent’s inten.-ois was a While House
8.9 per 100,000.
AccldentaKdrowninfeyCaused 5,500 deaths, or 7.4 per 100,000. Mine accl
dents and^irijuries resultetWn 2,623 deaths, or 3.5 per 100,000.
is due to Injuries by vehicles' other than railroad cars, street cars
and automobiles numbered 2,326, or 3.1 per 100,000. Deaths resulting from
street car accidents munbered 2,277, corresponding to a rate of 3 per 100,000.
Machinery accidents caused 2,112 deaths, or 2.8 per 100,000, a rate ma
terially greater than that for any preceding year covered by the bureau’s
mortality records. This last item is attributed by the American Machinist to
“the largp number Of previously untrained workers employed during the war
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2,000 New Postage Stamps Gladden Collectors
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N EW postage stamp issues since December, 1918, are now approaching
2,000 in number. Of these nearly 1,500 are accounted for by the first
stamps of the new European states whose autonomy was guaranteed by the
Paris conference. Poland, once repre-
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sented In the stamp album by a single
label, has produced since the armistice
more than 400 separate and distinct
postage stamps, while the Ukraine
ranks second with approximately 175
varieties of either a provisional or per
manent description. Jugo-Slavia and
Czecho-Slovakia account for something
like 150 specimens each and the de
batable territory of Flame for 75.
The average for the remaining
states is between 30 and 50 stamps,
while the shortest series thus far recorded is that of the Transcaucasian
republic of Georgia, comprising up to the present four values only. The high
est stamp issuing “record” hitherto achieved was in the year 1914, when 1,286
new postage stamps were produced throughout the world, mainly duo to the
change lir the watermark of the British colonial Issues.
One important step toward finality in the philatellc affairs of new Europe
la the issue of unified postage stamps for the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes^ instead of the separate issues for Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia and
Serbia. They bear the likeness of the veteran King Peter I as overlord of
Greater Serbia and are inscribed ^fTBoUTbaJin and Cyrillic character*.
announcement early in the day that
he would have nothing to say until
he sent his message to congress at
the beginning af the new session on
T ecember 1. h' :hat time, ;t Fas
said, he would go into the treaty situ
ation. Senator Underwood, of Ala
bama, prominently mentioned for the
Democratic leadership h the next
session, talked over the o»itlook with
Secretary inanity hut Uid ro* see the
President
The geneia! belief on both sides to
night seemed to be that any compro
mise negotiations will have to wait
until the session begins. Most of the
senate membership has left Washing
ton, and t.m general disposition is to
await the President’s message before
attempting to go further with compro
mise efforts. Senate” Hitchcock, of
Nebraska, in charge of the treaty for
the administration, will leave tomor
row for Omaha. Be said tonight that
he was uncertain whether he would
see the President before his depart
ure.
One compromise plan discussed to
day was to refer the treaty, if it were
resubmitted by the President, to the
foreign relations committee 'with the
understanding that it would remain
there until some agreement had been
reached by private negotiation for its
ratification. With two-thirds of the
senate lined up for such a program.
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it was pointed oui, the treaty could
be brought out of committee, cloture
adopted, and fhe whole matter speed
ily disposed of without taking the sen
ate’s time from pressing legislation.
The Republican leares emphasized
that some such plan must be adopted
if the treaty is to be considered at
all, declaring that railroad and other
legislation, which the treaty crowded
out of the special session just closed,
must not be longer delayed
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 21.—In a tele
gram sent to the Roanoke Times to
day, Senator Claude A. Swanson, of
Virginia, declared he is “sure a treaty
will be submitted by the President”
at the next session of congress, and
that he is “hopeful of an early ratifi
cation.”
Senator Swanson’s statement reads:
“The treaty of peace is temporarily
defeated in the senate, but can be
presented again by the President In
its present firm ir any other treaty
he may negotiate. , As soon as the
regular session convenes I am sure a,
treaty will be submitted by the
dent, and I am hopeful of early
ucatior: ’ey the senate.” ^
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