Hickory Daily Record

WESTERN UNION'S SHIP IS BROUGHT INTO PORT

Miami, Fla., March 7.-The United States submarine chaser 320 arrives here to join the S. C. 154 which yesterday halted work on the Western Union Miami-Barbados cable after it had fired a shot across the bow of the cable ship Robert C. Clowry, four miles off the coast.

The submarine chaser 320 was dispatched here this morning from the Key West naval base, under order of the commandant of the seventh naval district.

The Robert C. Clowry, the Western Union's own ship, was berthed at the municipal dock awaiting further instructions. The two chasers were standing by, maintaining close watch over it.

The story of the incident yesterday was related briefly today by the commander of the two ships.

"I signalled the cable ship, which was maneuvering about in search of the buoy, to stop," said Ensign Wm. H. Klapproth, commander of the submarine chaser 154. "When it paid no attention we fired a shot across the bows of the Clowry."

Klapproth declares that he was still under orders to prevent work of connecting the cable to the mainland here but declines to make further comment.

The cable which was brought up here last summer by the British cable ship Colonia, was left attached to a buoy when the controversy with the government arose and prevented the completion of connections. It was said yesterday that the buoy has sunk being pulled down by the great weight of the cable. When work is resumed it will be necessary to grapple along the bottom of the ocean to pick it up.
Miami, Fla., March 7.-The cable layer Clowry is today at the municipal docks at Miami under guard of two United States submarine chasers awaiting further orders. The Clowry came into port late Saturday afternoon when a shot was fired across its bows by one of the chasers as it was trying to connect its cables.

Officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which owns the cable, disclaimed any attempt to land the cable until permission had been granted by the United States.
CAN'T LAY CABLE

By the Associated Press.

Washington, March 7. At the state department today it was learned that the decision of the government to prevent the Western Union to connect its cable with a short line remained unchanged. Operators near Miami last Saturday were stopped under orders of the Wilson administration.

Senator Kellogg, Republican of Minnesota had a short talk with President Harding today and although he would not comment afterward, the understanding was that he presented information regarding the Barbados-Miami cable incident, with which he had kept in touch as chairman of a senate committee.