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THE WEATHER
Showers to-day and cooler to-night;
fair and coo!??* Wednesday ;
south ?rinds
Fnll Report on ?.nivv Pos;?
(Copyright. 19S?.
?ew York Tribune Inc.)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922
?5? * H?
TWO CKNTB I THRKK CKST? J Fom CrXTm
i Within 200 Mil?? M,?i,.?
In Great*r -J-W York
i pritai? Knies
i 3- Mile Rum
limit Stands
(^operation to Check All
Smuggling Pledged, bul
| Balks at Compact for
Searches on Open Sea
^Official Collusion
Charged byHughei
?-iquor-Kiinning Vessel?
(given i)ml Clearance
at Bahamas, He Sayi
from The Tribune's Washington Btir?au
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.?The Brit
fell government to-day d?>clined th
anr-rr.tio- of the United States for
??!.-? to extend the right of searc
m fhips up *<? twelve miles off tli
aoiif*t. Coincident with the announet
pimt of this (icci-sion, Secretary <
fltatc Hughes made public correspont
trice charging that authorities in tr
JBahamas had aided rum runners i
fading the law.
The British government's note, han
ti to Mr; Hughes by Sir Aucklai
Gedde?, the British Ambassador, whi
|t rejects the suggestion of this go
i ??nment that a reciprocal agreement 1
! jus-l? for the search of vessel? und
'< Mspicion of operating in the iiqu
ir-lfic, gives assurance that the go
?fitment of Great Britain will co-o
, ?Aj> in the suppression of the traf
? lud in the "prevention of the abu
l ai the British flag by those engagt
f feit-"
h .In the American note addressed
^British Ambassador by Mr, Hugh
?Juno 26, the difficulty of coping wi
liquor runners outside the three-mi
limit, was set forth. Complaint w
jas-e that the British authorities we
not strictly enforcing the law wi
mpect to transfer to British regist
?I American vessels engaged in, smu
fling operations.
Text of British Note
The text of the British reply f<
50V.S-:
"Sir:
""Mr. Chilton duly forwarded to E
Majesty's government copy of yo
note of June 26th last in which certs
iiiggesuons were made for co-opei
lion between the British and Unit
States authorities with the object
?restricting the smuggling of alcoho
liquor into the United States.
"I am now directed t? inform y
that Hi- Majesty's government ha
?.MurtiJy been ?Iwirous o,f preventii
? ??if rrcry mon.- within hair j/c>w
&y breaches i>? the law in the I
hijrnijs or c]-*ewhere in the Brit
SWeat indies by persons engaged
illicit trade with the United Stat
awl the proposals made by the Uni
Sut? government with this obj
isr? received the most S5'mpath(
?K-ji-pi.Uion. With the object of p
Jetting the development of ille
psiiices in connection with this trt
instruct ions had, in fact, some mon
Wore the receipt of the represei
fens made by the United States j
?mrnent, been sent to the Goveraoi
the Bahamas, who was at that t
Wjuestcd to see that no irregulari
; ? any kind should be permitted
?meet ion with vessels clearing f
that colony, and that the formali
?ferai red in connection with such ch
i_ce_ should be most strictly enfor>
Flag Transfers Scrutinized
"Ins! ructions have also been gi
I'to the local registi-ars of shipi
Iwhich will, it is anticipated, have
leffoct of preventing any future tri
pfers of United States vessels to
p-?ritish flag until a complete inv?
??gation of the circumstances can
made. Investigations, which it
huped will shortly be concluded,
being made into the position and ]
, ttpdinga of the vessels, a list of w1
was enclosed in your note of June 2
"In dealing with the precaution!
be tak-rtn to control transfers f
lbs United States to the British :
tue suggestion that, in such cases,
?oca! registrar of shipping should
?qt?re i he production of a certiflj
itomthn United ?States Shipping B<
has been carefully examined. It
b'*en found that there would be g
i 'iiffisultics in the adoption on Bri
?territory of such a requirement,
il would be still more difficult to
Weh a requirement the force of
?iith a view, however, to meeting
fches of the United States gov
gfiu on this point as far as is j
|?b!e, instructions have been g
?the registrar of shipping at Na
* the effect that, in transfer case
*feich any possible doubt exists a
s* bona fides of the parties to
kawtctioii, the non-production of
pipping board certificate shoult
V?n as a ground of suspicion
giving reference of the case to
??*rd of Trade in London for iui
. Wttions. The. delay necessitate
f? procedure would, it is hopei
ijitself sufficient to reduce t
???gBBum the danger of transfer?
M successful ! y effected in imp
(Continu*-.- en nag? four)
Wis Swift Jr. Elopes
$eds Pittsburgh Won
^ Object ion From the Fan
I Says Father of Young
Mi?ionaire
I S?wiVjl Dispatch to The Tribune
1 ?-81CA?O. Oct. 16.?Louis F. !
? '-Wn of the packer, and Mrs. .
? j?- wnnett, of Pittsburgh, elope
BiT1 *^?'rit to-day and were ma
? *?? Howard Kemp.
B*! .^i'Je gave her age as t
_H gj8'^ sbe had been divorced
WE Rwst husband in June, 1920.
I -J^'ity-sevcn year? old.
H? KWi.ng tS:c cpre?no?y young !
ffi&t1* bride entered a touring
? 2** th*3 millionaire himself was
?'.?%L4li(i spr(i -t'-'thwHrd over
BfiK,n. Highway in the dircctic
B>-ktike' Ind' U is b-i?cved
__U& - way to bome winter r
?t?l&- t h on their honeymoon.
B-I&L *iSwift "., bead of the ;
?Kl* di'Ri,ld to-night that he
Bw'.,?**" a ??use an elopment
?__P*ir?l/Vei?thin?f iB a,! '
.?}_., no ?!>-<-'ctiort en the pa
Ba.? to the marriage. We
?S**! i1"" Bennett were t
__B*i?t_n. *? didn,t know th?
iHg; \b? the day, that's all.
Bk*V * v<"rv charming y
Army Flyer Hits 248.5 Mile
Speed, Breaking All Records;
Experts Astounded at Feat
*"""? """ .? ."' ' - '_A
Longest Ride in World
For Nickel in New York
The Transit Commission, in an?
nouncing the formal opening of
the Livonia Avenue extension, in
Brooklyn, yesterday, set up the
claim that it gives the longest
one-direction ride in the world for*
a nickel.
It is now possible for a pas?
senger to ride from New Lots
Avenue, in the Brownsville sec?
tion of Brooklyn, near the Queens
County line, through Brooklyn,
Manhattan and the Bronx, to 241st
Street and White Plains Road,
live blocks from the Westchester
County line at Mount Vernon, a
distance of 26.78 miles.
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News Summary
DOMESTIC
Secretary Hoover advises against
cancellation of war debts to the
United Spates.
Lieutenant R. L. Maughan, army
aviator, breaks all world's record*-}
for syeed, flying at rate of 248,5 miles
an hour.
Records show Smith favored cor?
porations, Miller tells Binghamton,
N. Y., audience.
Smith says Transit Commission
violates home rule; tells Troy peo?
ple sex'en cent fare is their contract
with traction companies.
Rhode Island political campaign
called an orgy of money spending on
the part of both sides.
FOREIGN
Collapse of coalition ministry-in
England considered possible as result
?of meeting of Unionist leaders Thurs?
day,
President Poincare to urge French
! Senate to ratify Washington naval
treaty at once.
Near East peace conference proba
? bly will be held at Lausanne.
LOCAL
Prosecutors facing removal in
Hail-Mills irvrder Case ask delay be?
cause of new evidence.
Lawyer surrenders French woman
who shot broker when he refused to
marry her.
McAneny tells Kylan he will be
called "double-fare Mayor" as result
of transit deadlock.
"I never cry," says Mrs. Giberson
at tearless trial for murder of her
husband.
Estimate Board grants 400 teinpo
rijry bus permits; city to share
profits.
E. C. Yellowley will return to en?
force prohibition here as successor
to State Director Day
Deal against Cohalan provoked
community anger, says well known
rector.
Jewish philanthropic societies col?
lect more than $100,000 in first day
of drive.
Salvation Army girl, discharged by
magistrate, will continue meetings;
police post order forbidding them.
National Liberal Alliance starts
etraw vote against prohibition and to
aid Democrats.
Public fails to aid bucket shop
crusade, and state officers may enter
fight.
Vacuum tube for wireless signals
means new era in communication,
says Tribune radio editor.
New organization will achieve
power equal to British Labor party,
Hillquit says.
WASHINGTON
? England refuses to enter into
treaty with united States extending
search limit at sea to twelve 3niles.
Secretary of War Weeks withdraw?
demand for bigger army; will pare
estimates.
Extra session of Congress late in
November is believed to be certain.
SPORTS
Tyyster win3 Scarsdale Handicap
at Empire City track.
Yankees recall 1922 rookies and
gain two new players by draft.
Tex Rickard insists that Battling
Siki keep date to box Kid Norfolk at
Madison Square Garden.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
Rail shares show rising tendency
as industrials ease off; money mar?
ket confused by cross currents.
American Smelting ? makes better
showing for first half.
Ten per cent price advance at
Botany Worsted Company opening.
Fire Again Harries Tampico
Third Blaze in Few Months
Does $1,000,000 Damage
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10.?Property
valued at more than $1.000,000 was
destroyed by fire at Tampico to-day,
according to despatches received by the
newspapers here. The destroyed prop?
erty covered five blocks. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
This i? the third destructive fire
which has occurred in Tampico within
a few months.
. a .
Germany's Debt Soars
To 489 Billion Marks
BERLIN, Oct. 16.?-During the first
ten days of October, Germany's float?
ing debt increased 38,000,000,000
marke to a total of 489,000,000,000 e
marks, it was announced to-day.
No Limit to Aerial Pace,
They Declare, as Lieut.
Moughan Alights After
a Startling Performance
Curtiss Machine Is Used
Other Notable Flights Made
to Determine Types To
Be Developed by U. S.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Oct. .16
(By The Associated Press).?Traveling
at a greater speed than any human
being ever before attained, Lieutenant
R. L. Maughan, a United States Army
pilot, to-day set a new world's airplane
speed record by covering a one-kilo
I meter course at the rate of 248.5 miles
an hour.
. The record was made during official
government tests of speed planes that
participated in the national air races
at Selfridge Field last week and was
electrically timed by officers from Mc
Cook Field,
Aeronautical engineers and army and
navy officers who witnessed the flight
were astounded. The demonstration,
they declared, proved that there was
no limit to the speed that might be at?
tained in the air.
Lieutenant Maughan made the rec?
ord-breaking flight in the same plane
with which he won the chief race on
Saturday, The machine is a Curtiss
army biplane, powered with Curtiss 400
horsepower engine.
Other Records Made
After setting the new record Lieu?
tenant Maughan continued his flight to
show that the tremendous pace could
be maintained. On four laps he was
timed at the rate of 232.22 miles an
fiouv, and his average for eight laps
was 229 miles an hour.
Later Lieutenant Maughan added to
the astonishment of pilots and officials
on the field by flying approximately
one mile with" the machine on its side.
The feat in reality was a flight with?
out the aid of wings. In other trials
during the day the speed record for
monoplanes was shattered by one navy
and three army machines.
Lieutenant Barksdale covered the
one kilometer course at the rate of
191 miles an hour and Lieutenant
Whitehead made 187. They drove
Loening-Packard planes. Captain
Hunter, in a Thomas Morse, was timed
at 179 miles an hour, and Lieutenant
Galloway, in the navy's Bee Line racer,
made 177 miles an hour.-..
Determine Future Tj-peg
The trials arc to be continued
throughout most of this week, and
will determine to a large extent, the
type of machines to be develope?! for
the army and navy. Lieutenant
Maughan's flight was said to have
made it virtually certain the army
would select the Curtiss-Army biplane
as the standard pursuit type.
The tests may also have a bearing
on the decision as to whether the gov?
ernment shall build its own fighting
machines, or work as it has in the
past, with aeronautical companies. ?V
bill now before Congress proposes that
army and ncvy construction be done
solely by the government.
Cuban Crisis Is Over,
Foreign Minister Says
De C?spedes Sees Great Pros?
perity Ahead as People Unite;
Pays Visit to Hughes
WASHINGTON, Oct. IG (By Thc As?
sociated Press).?The crisis in "Cuba
is over and an era of reform is u rider
way, Dr. Carlos Manuel iff C?spedes,
Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs and
for several years minister to this coun?
try, declared to-day. Dr. de C?spedes,
who has come to Washington to ar?
range for transfer of the legation her?
to his successor, conferred to-day with
Secretary Hughes.
"The dangerous period of the Cuban
situation is over," said Dr. de C?s?
pedes, "and although, as everywhere in
the world to-day, there are grave prob?
lems pending, I am optimistic that we
have entered a new favorable period.
The late crisis has had the result of
unifying the Cuban people as never be?
fore, and the government is being sup?
ported by the public opinion in its task
of reformation."
"I believe," the minister added, "that
we are on the eve of a revival of pros?
perity in the commercial relations with
the United States."
Seek to Retain Ebert
As Presidential 1926
Proposed Amendment Would
Extend German Provisional
Executive's Term
BERLIN, Oct. 16 (By The Associated
Press).?It is expected that the Reichs?
tag soon will pass a measure altering
the constitution, so as to enable Presi?
dent Ebert's tenure of office to be pro?
longed to 1926. This step, it is under?
stood, was decided on after a confer?
ence held this morning between the po?
litical party leaders and Chancellor
Wirth.
Ebert was elected provisionally in
1919 by the General National Assembly
at Weimar. He was to remain in office
only until regular elections could be
held. The disturbed political and eco?
nomic conditions of the country since
that time have made elections inadvis?
able.
Under the constitution Presidents
of the German Republic are to be elect?
ed by direct vote of all citizens, male
and female, over twenty-one years of
age, for a term of seven years.
? :
"Bone Dry" Mexico, Aim
Of Prohibitive Tax Bill
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 16.?A "bone
dry" Mexico is in prospect if plans
which are being considered by a group
of Deputies, which are to be incorpor?
ated in a bill to be introduced in
Pa/Hament, arc enacted into law. The
project has as its basis a federal tax
/??-?saloons ranging from 1,000 pesos
X/a* j.0,000 pesos a month?a prohibi?
tive tax.
The bill now is being drafted and
will be submitted to the Department
of the Treasury with a request that
it be incorporated in certain tax bills
which arc to be presented to the Cham?
ber of Deputies by the department.
New Arrests
Promised in
Hall Murder
Man and Woman To Be
Seized and Mystery End?
ed, Officials Say; State
Intervention Is Delayed
Widow's Brother
Henry Summoned
Wire Tapping Charged;
Girl Sells Love Note
Rector Wrote HerMothei
By Boyden Sparkes
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 16.
Removal of Prosecutors Strieker ant
Beekman from control of the investi
gation of the murders of the Rev. Ed
wnrd W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mill
was held up to-day when they sent as
surances to Governor Edwards and Su
preme Court Justice Parker that the;
had new evidence upon which they fel
justified in arresting a man and
woman.
According to an unverified repor
from the Prosecutor's office here th
new evidence is the statement of
man who says he ?aw a motionles
automobile in Dc ?Russey:s Lane o:
the night of the murders and recog
nized it as the car of persons wh
have figured conspicuously in the in
vestigatlon.
Late this afternoon Prosecutor Beei
man of Somerset County sent word t
Henry Stevens, brother of Mr
Frances Stevens Hall, widow of th
murdered rector, that he wanted t
Ece him at once. Mr. Stevens replie
that he would take the first train. H
is staying at La Vallette, a seacoai
village forty miles from New Bruni
wick.
Stevens Refuses to Talk
When asked over the telephone ti
night if he knew why he had bet
summoned, Mr. Stevens replied: '
have nothing to say." He was ask?
if it was not true that he had bet
instructed to report* to Prosecut*
Beekman immediately and gave tl
same reply. A state trooper has be?
stationed in La Vallette since tin
were put on the case by Govern*
Edwards.
Mr. Stevens, an expert rifleman, fo
merly employed as a demonstrator 1
the Du Ponts and the Remington Arr
Company, had arranged to sail for E
rope a few weeks ago, but cancell.
his plans. On the night of the doub
killing Mr. Stevens, according to h
statement and that of a neighbor in J
Vallette, was fishing in Barnegat Br
State Troopers Ignored
Whatever Prosecutor Beekman's pi
pose was in summoning Mr. Stevens
his1 office, he did not take into his co
fidence any of the state troopers w
have been working on the case. Tl
was learned to-night. Colonel Norm
Schwarzkopf came here for a confi
ence with his men to-day, and he h
a swarm of them in New Brunswick
in plain clothes. But Mr. Beekma;
failure to inform the state troopers
his proposed conference with M
Hall's ?rother illustrates but c
phase of the lack of co-operati
among the various investigating ag<
cies.
In Prosecutor Strieker's office I
teetive Ferd David is at cross purpoi
with Detective Ferguson. They ?
rival candidates for the post of ch
detective. Strieker wants to appo
David and County Judge Peter Da
whose sanction is necessnry, has -
clinod to give it. So, if the mystt
is solved within the next four days,
the prosecutors have promised it sh
be, it will not be the result of h
nionious "digging."
Further foundation for the bel
that the rector and the choir leai
had had earlier meetings in De ? R
sey's Lane was obtained last nig
when Florence North, the woman It
yer who volunteered her services
Charlotte Mills, admitted that she 1
sold a package of letters found by
murdered woman's daughter in a an
bag in her house and smuggled awaj
her aunt, Mrs. Barnhardt, of Patera
N. J,
Written From Bar Harbor
Mrs. North declared that they w
written by the clergyman to Mrs. M
while he was in Bar Harbor last
gust, and that in two of them he
ferred to meeting her "on Friday
our road behind the Parker home."
the second he changed the hour fi
8 in the evening* to '? In the afterm
The letters were undated, but the 1
yer apparently believed that the
in question was that on which
rector returned from his vacat
three days before Labor Day.
In the letters, Mrs. North said,
rector on one occasion called Mrs. M
his "Gypsy Queen" and on anol
"Dear Wonderheart." In one lettei
said that he never thought of Sun
without thinking of her.
About the diary Miss North was i
committal, merely describing it a
little brown book covering twenty
days simultaneous with the writin*
the letters. She admitted that
Hall's name did not appear in it
refused to tell how she knew thai
had written it.
As for her reasons for making ]
lie the letters, the woman lawyer
that Charlotte had authorized he
take the step in order to keep t
from falling into the hands of
(Continued on nagt nine)
r-i-j?
?t9s Mister McAneny
And Mister Hylan Now
Mayor Hylan picked the wrong
man to address without the "Mr."
yesterday when he turned to the
chairman of the Transit Commis?
sion at the hearing before the
Board of Estimate, and said "Mc?
Aneny, do you know what the B.
R. T. is up to in this reorganiza?
tion?" .
"Hylan, I don't know what
you're talking about," Mr. Mc?
Aneny shot back.
Mr. McAneny took the slight
to his office unruffled, but the
Mayor blushed visibly at the re?
ply. Mr. Hylan was so punctil?
ious thereafter in addressing the
chairman that there was a ripple
of amusement each time he spoke
to "Mr." McAneny.
ScornedWoman
Shoots Broker
At His Office
Man Avoids Her Early Calls,
but She Corners Him;
Makes Plea for Wedding,
Then Fires Five Times
Victim Dying in Hospital
Hin Assailant Surrenders ;
Wife He Abandoned Tried
in Vain to Warn of Peril
Mrs. Paulette Salundes, a young French
stenographer, went to the office of
Oscar M. Martelliers, an insurance
broker at 100 William Street, yesterday
afternoon and demanded that he marry
her. He refused. She shot him five
times. Martelliere is in a dying con?
dition at the Beekman Street Hospital.
Mrs. Salundes surrendered herself to
the police two hours after the crime.
It was learned from other occupants
of the office where Martelliere rented
desk room that Mrs. Salundes had
come there earlier in the day, but find?
ing him out, left a note for him which
is said to have read: "As you don't
want to put a stop to it, I will, and
going right away to see Mr. James
? Turley, who is waiting for me. You
wjll not be long to land in Jail."
. Martelliere-, it appears, had expected
her and had told others he did not
want to see her, absenting himself
about the time when she was to come,
?le telephoned later and asked if "that
woman" was -still there. When In?
formed she had gone, he came to his
office.
At about 3 o'clock, however, Mrs.
Salundes returned. The only other
person present at the time was Ger?
trude Thompson, a stenographer, who
was a new employee at her desk for
the first time yesterday. According to
her, Mrs. Salundes walked up to Mar
telllere's desk and said a few words in
a low voice: She had seated herself In
a chair alongside Martelliere's desk
just behind Miss Thompson's chair.
A moment later, says Miss Thompson,
the woman rose and asked in a peremp?
tory tone: "Well, are you going to
do it?"
"No!, replied Martelliere decisively.
Whips Out Revolver
His visitor quickly wrenched a small
.25 caliber revolver from a black case
and sent two shots into Martelliere's
chest and abdomen. He rolled from his
chair upon the floor, She moved over
closer as he lay face downward and
fired three more shots into his back.
Thrusting the pistol under her skirt
belt, she quietly walked out of the
office and left the building undisturbed.
When Miss Thompson had recovered
a moment later from her fright she
rushed out into the hallway and
screamed for help. An ambulance took
Martelliere to the Beekman Street
Hospital, while the police and detec?
tives of the Old Slip police station
began to scurry around for the miss?
ing woman.
Two hours later Captain William
Funston, in charge of detectives at
the Old Slip station, received a tele?
phone call from James Turley, an at?
torney with offices in the Woolworth
Building, that Mrs. Salundes had been
at his office and was returning soon.
Turley was the man mentioned in the
note which the woman had left at
Martelliere's office earlier in the day.
Captain Funston, with Detectives
Trainor, Fay and Dunphy, hurried over
to Turley's offices, and a short time
later the woman returned. She was
at once placed under arrest and taken
to the Old Slip station. She still had
in her possession the .25 caliber auto?
matic pistol in a small black case.
Twenty-five caliber shells wer? picked
up from the floor of Martelliere's of?
fice by Detective Oswald.,
Declines to Talk
She declined to make any statement
whatever in reply to questions by Cap?
tain Funston, saying that she had been
instructed to say nothing by her attor?
ney. Because of Martelliere's condition
it was inadvisable, the police explained,
to have her identified by the victim.
She was taken to the Clinton .Street
station and will be ?arraigned at the
Tombs Court this morning.
Martelliere, however, said the police,
made a statement before becoming un?
conscious, naming Mrs. Salundes as the
(Continuad on page nine)
Astral Golf links and Spirit
Baseball Diamonds Forecast
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.?"If a man has
spent twenty years playing baseball or
golf, or attending such games, finding
his chief pleasure in them, he will
undoubtedly maintain that interest on
'the other side,' " said Mark Barwise,
delegate from Maine to the National
Association of Spiritualists, which
opened its convention to-night.
Mr. Barwise intimated that there
would be spirit baseball diamonds and
astral golf links for the recreation of
our spiritual selves. He says that all
spirits work, but that work in the spirit
world is equivalent to play here.
It was also said that every person,
whether a spiritualist or not, had some
one in the spirit world interested in
him or her It may be a relative not
known in worldly existence, drawn to
him by a kind of spiritual telepathy.
"These spirits follow the progress
of the individual in the flesh with in?
terest," said Mr. Barwise. "However,
the spirits do not worry too much
about difficulties that beset their
earthly charge. The spirits see far
enough ahead to know that everything
will work out all right."
Dr. George B. Warne, president of
the association, said the feet are the
first part of the body to become spirit?
ualized and the head is last. He proved
this by the fact that when death comes
the. feet grow cold first, while the
head, which houses the dynamo of the
brain, is the last to become col<}.
About 8f0 spirituali**,- are ?.*. at?
tendance.
?
Early Split in
Lloyd George
Cabinet Seen
?''???'??.?'''*?
Premature to Say Pre?
mier Will Resign, Is An
nouncement After Par-|
ley With Chamberlain j
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Coalition May Know j
Fate on Thursday I
Conservatives to Decide
Then on Proposal to!
Sever Political Bonds ?
from The Tribune'* Buropean liureau
Copyright. 1922, Nnw* York Tribune Inc. |
LONDON, Oct. 16.?An early split in j
Lloyd George's Cabinet was indicated j
to-night as possible following a con- I
ference between Austin Chamberlain
and his ministerial colleagues. After
the meeting it was given out that it j
was premature to say that the Premier I
already had decided to resign and dis
solve Parliament. A long discussion j
on the advisability of the Conserva- I
tives continuing in the coalition was
held and a resolution bearing on this
question will be introduced at a great
Unionist rally to be held Thursday
morning instead of November 16, as I
had been planned.
The significance of this decision lies t
in the fact that such Unionist leaders
as the Earl of Denby and Andrew j
Bonar Law favor separation from the !
coalition, and if the conference so de- !
cides the Conservative ministers will
have no alternative except to resign i
from the Lloyd George government, j
The whole situation is.thus left open!
until the Thursday meeting, but in j
some quarters it is expected that Mr. !
Chamberlain will obtain a vote of con
fldence from his followers and thus i
leave the Premier a chance to indi- !
cate his course of action. '
Lloyd George continues to mystify
his political enemies, only a few of his
closest followers sharing the secret re- 1
garding the date of the general elec-?
tion and the Premier's plans for ap
pealing to the country. Winston j
Spencer Churchill, who was to have I
spoken at Bristol to-morrow and from !
whom some light was expected, was j
taken ill to-day and was obliged to
cancel his engagement.
May Decide Fate of Coalition
All the Unionist members of the)
Cabinet and about 850 Unionist mem- i
bers of the House of Commons will
attend on Thursday, at which a deci?
sion is expected that will determine j
the fate of coalition. The general i
conference was decided upon after a
gathering in Mr. Chamberlain's home, !
where party leaders heard speeches j
from both Lloyd George and others, j
which made it. clear that an agreement
had been reached between the Premier
and Mr. Chamberlain.
From Downing Street it was learned
to-day that the Premier is so much
pleased with the results.of his Man?
chester speech that he contemplates j
making a tour of the North of Eng- j
land during this week end. After a j
council of war with his Ministers to- |
day the Premier went to the country
in high spirits. The whoie situation
has caused the most intense excite?
ment, not only in London but through?
out the country, where all news is sub?
ordinate to speculation on the date of
the coming election.
The newspapers all agree that Lloyd,.
George retained his hold on the people,
but his speech at Manchester is criti- !
cized for many reasons. His strictures !
on France are especially regretted, and ?
his attack on the Turks is regarded as |
unwise and unnecessary at this time, j
As the matter stands every question of j
international importance must remain
open until after the election. ??"
Desire Party Government
Lord Ampthill, who presided at the
convention of the National Constitu- I
tional Association, said to-day that j
despite the strong feeling to the. con- !
trary during the war the country had
decided to go back to party govern?
ment. He added that he. believed the
political instinct of the people in that
respect wa3 absolutely right.
LONDON, Oct. 16 (By The Associated j
Press).?This has been a day of ?
feverish activity in Downing Street, i
The summoning of the Unionist mem- j
bers of the Cabinet and 350 Unionist
members of the House of Commons to j
a conference on October 19 was fol- j
lowed by ominous rumblings from j
Labor quarters, one prominent party
?flfflcial being reported to have declared j
that no fewer than 420 Labor candi
dates would appear in the next elec- *
tion, of whom sufficient would be re-|
turned to make it most difficult for any
government to resist them.
J. H. Thomas, speaking at Newport,
delivered a scathing indictment of the ?
government, which, he said, had lost i
all prestige and honor. He predicted
an election before Christmas, and J
roundly condemned Mr. Chamberlain's i
suggestion of other parties combining |
against Labor as depriving Labor of j
the right to vote and forcing the men j
to direct action.
Sir Walter Runciman, at a Liberal
meeting at Portsmouth, made another
onslaught against the government,
which he declared was vacillating in
its foreign policy and inefficient in
finance.
Lord Gladstone Replies
Lord Gladstone, replying to Lloyd
George's attack on him in his Man?
chester speech, writes to "The London j
Times" charging the Premier with re- |
sponsibility for menacing a recrudes- |
cence of Turkish aggression against the
Christian populations and Europe !
itself. '<
Mr. Chamberlain as party leader will
preside at the Unionist meeting, the !
result of which the Prime Minister i
will await before deciding on his line
of action. Mr. Chamberlain will ask
for a vote of confidence, and on this
will depend his remaining in office and
the ensuing general election. If ac?
corded it will be left for the Premier
to indicate his course, which in any
case will not be divulged until after ho
attends the Prince of Wales'? public
welcome home in the Guild Hall on Oc- ?
tober 20.
The Premier held "a war council" I
to-day at 10 Downing Street with the
members of his cabinet, including Mr.
Chamberlain, afterwhich be departed
for Chequers Cou?
Washington Approves
Hoover98 Views on Debt
Prom The Tribune'? "Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.~Sec
| vetary Hoover's ?speech at Toledo
to-night, in which he declared
against cancellation of the Allied
debt to the United States, meets
the general approval of high offi?
cials of the Harding Administra?
tion, and of the great majority
of members of Congress.
It is pointed out that Congres?
has taken a stand flatly against
cancellation, and the Funding
Commission is bound to carry out
the will.of Congress. The senti?
ment of both branches has been
repeatedly shown to be strong
against concellation and the Hard?
ing Administration is not dis?
posed to seek to bring it about.
Mr. Hoover's speech amounts
to service of notice that the Fund?
ing Commission will live squarely
up to the law.
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Miller Rakes
Smith's Record
In Transit Fight
?.
Takes Aggressive to Show
How Ex-Governor Aided
8c Fares and Gave Com?
fort to Special Interests
Nixon Interlude Recalled
Smith Got Up-State Fares)
Raised and Winked at
Phone Lobby, He Says
From a Staff Correspondent.
BIINGHAMTON, N. Y., Oct. 16.?In
opening tho second week of his cam?
paign tour here to-night Governor
Miller took the aggressive. After mak?
ing a detailed comparison of the way
corporate special interests have been
treated under his administration and
under the Smith regime, the Governor
asserted that while the corporations
have received very short shrift during
the last two years the record proves
that when Mr. Smith was Governor
they were granted favors and increases
in rates all along the line.
"In his first utterance Mr. Smith
raised the issue of ?special interests,
which, he says, control the Republican
party, and which later he has specific?
ally asserted dominate me," said the
Governor.
"I wish briefly to state the record
on this question, not for the purpose of
charging my adversary with being con?
trolled by these special Interests, but
for the purpose of seeing how they
fared under him and under me.
"He siiys first of all that the New
York tr.iction interests came to him
asking for increased fare, and that he
referred them to the local tribunal of !
the City of New York. Either he has
a poor memory or he thinks the pub?
lic has a poor memory. I prefer to ?
believe that he has the bad memory be?
cause I am not going to charge him
with deliberate misrepresentation, as
he is nightly charging me.
Interests Went to Smith
"The fact is that the traction inter?
ests did go to him. The fact is that
he sent ?. message to the Legislature
in which he stated that the transit
situation in New York had become in?
tolerable, and in which he said that
if the Legislature would leave it to
him he would settle It. What did he
propose? That it be referred back to
the citv administration? No.
"That it be referred to a tribunal
upon which the city administration was
to be represented? No. That it be
referred to a tribunal to be appointed
by the city administration? No. He j
asked that the Legislature empower ]
him to create two state agencies where i
there had before been but one, one of ?
them to deal with transit construction,
the laying out of new routes, and the i
other to possess the regulatory powers,
including tho power to regulate rates.
"He appointed Mr. Nixon to the lat?
ter position," continued the Governor.
"So far as the public knows, Mr,
Nixon's sole activity during his incum- '
bency of office was centered in an at?
tempt to increase the fares to eight |
cents. He said in a report to tho '?
Legislature that was the only solution i
of the problem. He said It repeatedly !
in the daily dialogues that he had with |
the Mayor of the 'City of New York, i
Meanwhile, the transit situation con?
tinued to drift from tho intolerable '
condition described by Governor .Smith i
to the still more intolerable condition ?
which existed upon January 1, 1921.
"The tracticn interests knocked at j
the door of that commission at the out- j
set, demanding an eight-cent fare, and j
said they could not give the people
service without an eight-cent fare. i
"They were plainly told that the
commission had been set to the task of
bringing about a permanent solution
of an intolerable condition, and that
any question of fares would have to be
suspended until that solution had been
woiked out. They were told that the
(CsntlruiaMl en next ps?j*)
Pig Seeks Battle, Hurts
Man and Fights Captors
Boys' Ropes End Rampage of
Animal in Jersey City;
Woman Knocked Down
A large, white pig went on a rampage
in Jersey City yesterday, knocked
down and injured a man, knocked down
a woman who tried to stop it, and after
causing general havoc was finally
lassoed by a dosen boy* ' who pur?
sued it.
The pig, which apparently had
strayed from a farm in ??caucus, first
created attention when It sauntered
into the yard of the home of Frank
Nejtzel, of 65 Nelson Avenue, where it
attacked and severely injured Neitiel.
While friends took Neitsel to the office
of a doctor for treatment, the pig ran
into the yard of Walter G. Leeb, at 184
Columbia Avenue, chased by boya car?
rying ropes. Mrs. Leeb attempted to
stop it, but instead of halting, the pi?
ran toward her and knocked her down.
The pie was not captured until it
had fought the boys who surrounded
it and finally got toe* rope about it. (
Europe Can
??ndMustPay,
Says Hoover
Repudiation of Its Debt
Would undermine In?
ternational Confidence,
He Warns in ?Address
Resources Ample
if Quarrels End
Fear That U. S. Markets
Will Be Flooded Is
Untenable, He Declares
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
TOLEDO, Oct. 16.~It is the duty
of the funding1 commission recently
created by Congress to see that the
; terms of repayment of the Allied
; debt to the United ?States are carried
out, Secretary of Commerce Hoover
declared in an address here to-night
The whole fabric of international
\ good faith would be undermined by
repudiation of the loans made by the
; United States to the Allies and the
associated nations in the World War,
said Mr. Hoover, v.'ho is a member
of the funding commission. He did
not believe any public official, here
or abroad, could or should approve
their cancellation.
"These loans are, in fact, debts owinf*
to our taxpayers," Mr. Hoover said.
"They were made at the urgent request
of the borrowers and under their
solemn assurances of repayment. The
loans were individual to each nation.
They have no relation to other nations
or to other debts. The American tax?
payer did not participate in repara?
tions and acquired no territory or any
other benefits under the treaty as did
our debtors. There is no question as
to the moral or contractual obliga?
tion.
Britain Ready to Pay
The Secretary pointed out that Great
Britain had not asked for relief an-i
said the problem, therefore, Centered
on the debtorg on the Continent. The
burden -of payment, he added, would
fall upon nineteen different debtor.-?,
The annual payments, he estimated,
would be from 2 to 12 per cent of their
governmental income.
Mr. Hoover declared that with tht*
exception of some minor amounts,
which he estimated at 5 per cent, the
sums could be re-paid in a reasonable
period of time without strain upon the
debtors. Nor did he fear the threat
of a flood of goods from Europe in
such quantity that workers in the
United States would feel economic ill
effects.
"If there be some of these countries
who should be relieved of the ennuaJ
payments for a few years in order to
promote economic stability, then there
needs bo a demonstration of the facts
in respect to each individual country
that would be convincing to the Ameri?
can taxpayer and to Congress," the
Secretary continued. "The taxpayer
would naturally consider that ther??
are other things of vastly larg<*r di?
mensions than the postponement of
$350,000,000 a year which must march
in advance before economic prosperity
can be secured to Europe. For eco
nomic stability requires that there
must be such political and economic
readjustment between the states ol
Europe as will bring about an at?
mosphere of peace in replacement ?J
an atmosphere of war."
"America earnestly wishes to b?
helpful to Europe, but economic mst
ters require a degree of idealism thai
will do justice to the American people
as well as to be helpful to people?
abroad."
Mr. Hoover*? Address
Mr. Hoover's address was as follows
"Proposals have been repeated!:
made over the last three years that th
loans from our governm n1 to foreig
countries dtrring the war should in par
or in whole be canceled, either fo
moral reasons or in the interest o
economic stability. Less sweeping pre
posais have' been made that the pa?
ments of interest and installments a
required by Congress should be fus
ther postponed. The question is on
of the most complex and difficult i
character that the American peopl
have ever confronted. It greatly con
cerns American commerce, and I fet
that widespread discussion is of grea
value to the better understanding e
the economic issues involved. Full un
derstanding can be advanced only b
full and frank discussion.
"I have the feeling that many me
in Europe are thinking of these thing
in terms of despair, due to their im
mediate difficulties. There is no nee
for despair in the future of Europ
if it can maintain peace, its hare
working population, its tremendous ir
dustries, its enormous productivity an
its magnificent intelligence, its fabi
lous development of skill and scientif
knowledge are vital forces that mui
win if they have half a chance.
"These economic problems are pro!
lems that we must vision over yeai
and decades. They must not be ol
scured by fluctuation in exchange or t
calculations of trade balances in 'era
of war and depression. Europe hs
made great economic progress sine?! t.
armistice. Her troubles to-day ai
solely in the political and fiscal Sel
Her social organization, her agricu
ture industry, transportation and cor
merce have found extraordinary reci
perative powers from the depth? i
disorganisation and famine of 1919.
Status of Debt Summarise?!
"These loans to twenty natfoi
?mounted to about $10,000,000,000 a?
were nearly al? demand obligation
They now amount to $11,500,000.000
principal and aecrued interest, for i'
terest has been practically suspend?
up to date. The terms of repaymei
were to be determined by Congress ar
Congress has laid do??, the ?onditiot
under which payment can b* extend,
over a term of twenty-five years. It
the duty of the Funding Commission *
see that these terms are carried ot
and, of course, no alteration would 1
possible except through action ?
Congress.
"There are certain phases ?f this di
cussiof. that seem to me to requi
emphasis.
"First?These loans are often spek?
of as debt? to our government. Th?
are, in fact, debts owing to our taxps
ere. These loans we-ee made at tl
urgent request of the borrowers ?'
under their solemn assurance? of t
payment. The loaiw$*-?*re individuel