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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1922
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In tiren tor Sew York | Wf'ht"? S00 Mfil*# j F.l?*wh?r?
Critn Widow
Lid to Have
jeenHallShot
fc, Jane Gibson, Eccen
?c Pig Raiser*> Beli-Pved
?Have Sworn She Was
?aal Murder Witness
j^jje Included in
gcre?i? She Heard
peclarca to Have Ridden
Mule loto Crime Scene
yf?fe Pursuing Thief
Vrgm a Staff Corresptnt?en*
mgw BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 24.?
?hth? Ti?ae "t"*' 8*1''t*ne? pattern of
?HaU-MiH? murder mystery was in
ij? s new and positive element to
Ciritii the identification of Mr?.
te GfbMHi V*n?wn "" ^e*w* Brunswick
?jjj pig woman," a mysterious per
aj sf vigorous personality, who hat
^ m affidavit, according to a re?
t?? loores of information, that abe
?m eyewitness of the double tnur
p}3 September 14.
ifltli Wilbur A. Mott now in chare?
JIM kig^g investigation si Deputj
pruev General, the arrest of one ei
prt weens may be imminent as a
pit af tbs information said to hav?
ne supplied to the authorities bz
js. Gibson.
Drives Reporters Away
{siis?sg that she had no coanectiot
ijlli the case and discouraging re?
late? and photographers with actua
r;?3C? from trespassing on he)
?KiKii Mrs. Gibson is neverthelesi
l^ed to be the much-discussed wit
IM ?bo saw tbe slayinr of the Rev
???rd W. Hail and Mrs. Eleanor Mills
froa indisputable sources it wai
?9??d that her affidavit is in th<
iaji of the authorities. Prosecuto:
fciau, of Somerset, and Prosecuto:
fejeker, of Middlesex County, aro be
fjiritohave had this information, al
fafa they took no action on it
?"wofthe authorities would discusi
?."sitter to-day,
in. Gibson, it is now believed, wai
ii ?man who confronted Mrs. Hal
Ilia prosecutor's office when th?
?Si? of the murdered clergyman wai
n??teput on the gray coat she won
tinas went to the church to lool
Js?fejon the night of the crime.
?tnttly resentful o* ?he at*?nt!"i
*wuwob her, Mrs. Gibson was uo
i nanaxttive to-day. Sne bruke i
^jjt?J3j5?r'8 camera, threatened i
sure a shotgun and ordered re
?rtttt off her ?lace. She insiste?
t?? knew notn?ng of the Hall casi
ai&i not go out on the night of th<
Bier.
Apoatle of Revenge
.fct I wish I could do something t<
m up the mystery," she added. M
m widow, but if anybody stole m]
Hand I'd go to the ends of the eartl
Sil h or."
-.|re. Gibson is another remarkabl
?racter to enter a case that is al
jady rare in its assortment of unusua
toi. She is rugged and sturdy i
Mi Her skin is burned a coffe
town and is weather beaten from ex
fMttie.
Her hair is a rich chestnut, althoug
?A? is fifty years old and has
tanty-year-old son. Highly lntelli
?ut in spite of her brusque manne*
tt? speaks several languages fluently
Ttt she lives in a desolate shack ths
?ce was a barn and keeps mule!
.ekickena and pigs. She is an enigm
? her neighbors. They know her a
R-fearless, pioneering type, who ride
per mules as easily as another woraa
?right ride a norse.
I It is through her mules that he
k?me came to be linked with the Hal)
nils case. The story she is believe
B? have told iu her affidavit is this
r? more than a month before th
ttiraa wag committe i she was awar
that ?a? one had been breaking int
i?r premises and stealing corn. Sh
JW ner suspicions of a nieghhor,
?raer, living near where the bodie
?? th? Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mill
*H* found.
Chased Thief Saspect
Hwown faro consists of about sixt
J*i stocked with forty-eight pigi
?mules, one horse, some chicken
tfwgs. One of her dogs is pai
"?fly sensitive and detects th
jp*t noise around the place. He
HR) faces on Hamilton Road,
?pitance from De Russeys Lan>
w night of September 14 the mor
*?e of the dogs rushed aroun
'jSuly and bolted in the directio
*5? cornfield, according to tbe stor
???** to have been told the ai
F^by Mrs. Gibson. Investiga*
**ft<*?ovements of the dog, she sa
???leaving the cornfield. Withoi
'???"?st'e hesitation she took a mui
?^_(C?iitlnud ea aaaa ?iaht)
*?to Jacob Astor Buys
Win "London Times'
"pIKr Brother of Viscoton
A-ias Walter in Acquiring
C"ntfoU'*npr Interest
>-**" Th? Tribune's European Bureau
j^^ht, lijo. New Yorlt Tribune Inc.
fpON, Oct. 24?Major the Ho
Macob Astor, younger brother <
* w ,A8tor' will be associated wil
1. a^er in the control of "Tl
B? Times," through their Joli
?H..r.of the ?hares held by Loi
Tgflwe and Sir John EHerman.
a^5*,lter* Present head of ?
^?traditionally linked with "Tt
sL.wi'*1 take "F the option i
???J*?* the Northcliffe interest a
g *?? known, but that Maj?
I JS* ,to be associated with t!
|Wntrol became known only t.
fwu^ership of the Northclif
^?rman shares gives Walter at
g? ?tor more than a majority ii
i&.^tor family already eontr
m?^* interests here, their mo
?^?journal beins; ''The Londc
l-^llaw rTer'" cdifced by J- I* Ga
Em rfi .A,8tor' wbo is thirty-s
miL?L.*1'' rank as the youhge
?TO? ? j8*1 new8paper owner, i
Kailrsl^f the hi?he*t traditioi
?&*? " aRd to insure its co
Pw1rT!,& atonal institution co
|.??*? ?n the best interests ?
?* ne^n? *mP5r?'" i? the pi?
Ptetoat ?! owner8. ?ccerding to
|r^ lswed to-nightf, *
Wilson Acted Alone in War,
Then Railed at Cabinet for
Differing, Lane ?Letters Shotv
?s
First Roosevelt Stamp
Will Be Given Widme
I Front. TS? Tribune'? WaeMngton Bttrewe I
WASHINGTON, Oct, 24.-The
first stamp of the new five-cent
denomination, bearing the like?
ness of former President Roose?
velt, will be given to Mrs. Theo?
dore Roosevelt next Friday, when
the issue will be placed on sale at
Oyster Bay, N. Y.; in New York
City, his birthplace, and at the
Washington Philatelic Agency.
Five stamps each from the first
aheet will be given to Theodore
Roosevelt jr., Assistant Secretary
I of the Navy, and Mra. Alice Long
I worth, daughter of the former ?
President.
The department has received a
check from the Roosevelt Me?
morial Association for two sheets
of the new issue. The Philatelic
Agency, which handles stamp
sales to collectors, has sold $1,156
worth of the eleven-cent Hayes
stamps.
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| News Summary
FOREIGN
Andrew Bonar Law announces his
Gabinot Outline? his policy in
?speech at Glasgow to-morrow.
Britain announces willingness to
declare Germany in default and
Reparation Commission will go to
Berlin Sunday.
Reichstag, by vote of 314 to 76, ex?
tends term of President Ebert to
June 30, 1925,
Hundred Americans lured to
Buenos, Ayres by promise of wealth
In helping "imprisoned bankrupt"
obtain $480,000 fortune.
LOCAL
Woman farmer, reputed witness of
Hal!-MUIs murders, heard woman
call name of slayer, affidavit reveals.
England refuses clearance to Amer
j lean ship without medicinal brandy;
j big foreign lines carrying injunction
| appeal to United States Supreme
Court.
Clin? tells of pistol "duer which
cost life of picture actor; jury may
get case to-day.
Expert yeggs, with gas torch, get
$75,000 diamonds below the "dead
line."
Gilbert subpoenas registration
. books in search for fraud; Tam?
many "floaters" reported at work.
Artist here to restore chapel's
$5,000 mural, "improved" by house
painter.
Morschauser allows Gleason $22,
200, Mack $25,000 and expenses in
Stillman case.
Witnesses say Farley sold bus for
$600 profit on promise of profitable
route for purchaser.
Hylan praises own handling of
schools, freed by him of "Rockefeller
politics."
Eleven million dollar increase in
city budget due largely to salary
raises for favored few.
Italian duke, traveling incog.,
makes & hit on Majestic'? dance floor.
Junior Leaguers hear Mills and
Meta at first political meeting.
Montefiore expert calls tubercular
ex-service men trouble makers, and
is taken to task at meeting.
DOMESTIC
Letters of the late Franklin K.
Lane, Secretary of the Interior in
Wilson's Cabinet, reveal the former
President as impatient with asso?
ciates and loath to arm the nation
when war threatened.
Miller sums up achievements of
administration in seventeen signifi?
cant points.
Smith says Governor, not he,
needs the nursing bottle.
Skipper of the Henry Ford agrees
to race the Bluenose again to-day.
William G. McAdoo's speaking in
I Minnesota may have saved Senator?
ial seat of Frank B. Kellogg.
WASHINGTON
Willlara R. Day, Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court,
resigns. Will quit bench Novem?
ber 14.
Pan-American League of Nations
may be outgrowth of Central Ameri?
can conference in Washington De?
cember 4.
President Harding defies Ameri?
can Legion and refuses to remove
Brigadier General Sawyer as head of
Hospitalisation Board.
SPORTS
Referee W. N. Morice changes de?
cision on a play In Columbia-New
York University game, and rules
that Columbia was the winner.
Tufter wins Fordham Selling
Stakes, feature event at Empire City
track.
Fantoche and Sway run dead heat
in last ?vent at Latonia, and then
have a run-off, with Fantoche the
winner.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
Stock prices Irregular.
Mexican Petroleum officials to co?
operate with Stock Exchanga to
thwart any attempts to corner stock.
Trade barriera erected by poli?
ticians hinder world's economic re?
covery, ?ays Sir Gaerga Faialu
Never in Sympathy With
Preparedness, Declaring '
Europe Would End Fight-!
ing Mad and Money Poor
Wanted Neither to Win
Meetings Devoted to Discus?
sion of Frivolities as
Conflict Shook Nations
BOSTON, Oct. 24 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?A series of history
making letters, describing in detail the
American War Cabinet and giving an
intimate picture of Woodrow Wilson,
as he appeared while presiding over
the secret meetings of his official
family, is made public to-day. The
letters, written by the late Franklin
K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior in
the Cabinet of President Wilson from
1913 to 1923, have been collected and
edited by his widow, Anne Wintermute
Lane, and have been published by the
Houghton Mifflin Company. The vol?
1 ume is just off the press.
The correspondence reveals, among
other things, how the President fre?
quently lost patience with tho tre?
mendous problems confronting him,
and how, at other times, discourage?
ment crowded him to such a degree
that he was prompted to turn bitter?
ly upon his advisers when they failed
to agree with him.
Pursued Iso-ated Course
The letters give a description of Mr,
Wilson's attitude on preparedness be?
fore America enterco tho war; tell
how he regarded the proposal to arm
merchant ships, describe his opposi?
tion to anything approaching the
"code duello"? spirit at a time when
the United States was neutral, and
then, when great questions were press?
ing for decision, tell how he en?
couraged his Cabinet to talk of
trivialities while he went along on his
own c urse to solve the huge problems
facing his Administration
"The President said he didn't wish
to see either side win?for both had
been equally indifferent to the rights
of neutrals," Mr. Lane wrote to his
brother on February 17, 1917, comment?
ing on a particularly animated Cabinet
discussion.
On the subject of preparedness, even
a few months before the United States
entered the war, Mr. Lane quoted Presi?
dent Wilson as being "not in sym?
pathy." Writing again to his brother,
February 16, 1917, Mr. Lane said:
"At our dinner to the President last
night he said he was not in sympathy
with any great preparedness?that
Europe would be mad and money-poor
by the end of the war." Continuing,
Mr. Lane added a few observations of
his own.
Chief of Staff Slumbered
"The army and the navy are so set
and stereoptyped and standpat that
I am almost hopeless as to moving
them to the wise, large and wholesome
?ob," he wrote. "They are governed
y red tape worse than any union. The
chief of staff fell asleep at our meet?
ing to-day. Mars and Morpheus in
one."
Again to his brother, February 25,
Secretary Lane wrote:
"On Friday we had one of tho most
animated sessions of the Cabinet that
Jr suppose has ever been held under
this or any other President. It all
arose out of a very innocent question
of mine as to whether it was true that
the wives of American consuls on leav?
ing Germany had been stripped naked,
given an acid bath to detect writing
on their flesh and subjected to other
indignities.
"Lansing answered that it was true.
Then I usked Houston about the bread
riots in New York?this led to a dis?
cussion of the great problem which
we had all been afraid to raise?why
shouldn't we send our ships out with
guns and convoys7 Daniels said we
must not convoy?that would be dan?
gerous. (Think of a Secretary of the
Navy telling of danger.) The Presi?
dent said the country was not willing
that we should take any risks of war,
I said that I got no such sentiment out
of the country. , . .
Wilson Rebukes Cabinet
"This the President took as a sug?
gestion that we should work up a
propaganda of hatred against Germany.
Of course, I said I had no such idea,
but I felt that in a democracy the
people were entitled to know the facts.
McAdoo, Houston and Redfield joined
me. The President turned on them
bitterly, especially on McAdoo, and re?
proached all of us with appealing to
the spirit of the 'code duello.' We
couldn't get the idea out of his head
that we were bent on pushing the
country into war. Houston talked of
resigning after the meeting. McAdoo
will?within a year, I believe. I tried
to smooth them down by recalling our
past experiences with the President
We have had to push and push to get
him to take any forward step. He
comes out right, but he is slower than
a glacier?and tlrngs are mighty dis?
(Cofitlnusd on next p??**)
Britain Bars
Clearance to
Dry U.S.Ship
President Adams Is First
Boat to Face Law Re?
quiring Gallon of Brandy
for Each 100 Persons
France Involved
Bv Similar Rule
t)
Six Lines Prepare Plea
for a Stay Pending De?
cision of Higher Courl
Great Britain already is refusini
clearance papers to Americnn bone dr;
ships from British ports. This was re
ported yesterday simultaneously witl
an announcement that five big steam
ship lines in New York were preparin
application for a supersedeas stay t
I prevent government agents from er
forcing ship prohibition under the at
cisi?n of Federal Judge Learned Han
upholding the ruling of Attorney Gel
eral Daugherty. The stay will be aske
until a final decision of the Unite
States Supreme Court can be had c
the merits of the shipping suits.
Counsel for the steamship Hn<
which brought the proceedings befo:
Judge Hand were preparing yesterdi
at Washington for the submission
tho necessary papers to Associate Ju
tice Brandeis, asking for an order r
straining the government from enfor
ing the prohibition law on vessels
European countries and other countri
arriving at ports in the United Stati
An order granted by Justice Bra
dels, it was pointed out, would preve
! interference with such ships until t
! Supreme Court could render a decisi
! on the legal point at issue.
Government Not Hasty
It was indicated by Administr?t!
officials at Washington, according
Associated Press dispatches, that <
government was not inclined to enfo.
strictly the liquor ruling promulgat
by the Department of Justice so lo
as the question of its legality was 1
fore the courts.'
In the interim, France, like Gr(
Britain, is trying to find a way
Straighten out a tangle of conflicti
?shipping laws. Advices received
i French shipping interests in New Y<
[yesterday were in effect that M. B
?of Paris, under-secretary of the Frei
i Merchant Marine, has stated tl
should the ruling of the Attorney G*
?eral be sustained in the higher cou
| tho French companies will still be
p. loss to adiust this law with '
French law, which compels the ships
carry and ration wine to the crews w
meals every day. The French advices
.that only a friendly interest is tal
lin the clash of the laws of this nat
'with other nations, and that the Fre:
government is prepared to establ
quays at Halifax and Montreal for
leading liquor stores from ships c
tined for United States ports. 1
plan, however, does not relieve
I French shipb from the prescribed d
: under their own laws of ration
wines daily to crews.
British Law Requires Brandy
The clash of the British laws, wl
require every ship clearing a Bri
port to carry one gallon of brandy
every 100 persons on board, is the n
interesting phase of the situatior
arise since the ruling of the Attoi
General. The same clash is boun<
arise under the Belgian law, wl
requires each ship to carry one quai
wine for each person on board a
clearing a port of jurisdiction. Am
can ships cannot be held imim.n.
these laws, it is argued by marine 1
specialists, and the American si
like those of France and Great Bri.
will be put to the inconvenienc.
establishing qua^s at nearby for
ports.
The first case of actual confiic*
British authorities with an An
can commander on this issue was
ported yesterday, when the Prcsi
Adams, of the United States L
docked in New York. The incident
serve as a test to determine the
dling of all American shipping ot
British ports in the future.
Captain Jonas Pendlebury, of
President Adams, says that he wa?
titled by radio to unload all his li
stores whi.e he was preparing to
the Tilbury docks in London. He
loaded 4,368 bottles of assorted Hr
and 116 cases of ale while band
adjoining steamships played dirge,
while the bartender of the Pics
Adams wept.
Skipper Clashes With Law
Captain Pendlebury was congrat
ing himself on a duty well done
he applied to the British Boar
Trade for clearance papers. He
but a short while to make his clea
according to schedule. Ho was i
if he had not unloaded all of his 1
stores, and he replied that he
whereupon orders of the British
ernment were issued to him to r
one gallon of brandy for each IOC
sengers, according to British law.
(Continuad an eaaa nine)
I. W. W. Plot to Poison Food
Of Pershing's Men Told in Court
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 24?W.
E Townsend, who said he formerly was
the "right-hand man" of William D.
("Big Bill") Haywood, head of the In?
dustrial Workers of the World, testi?
fied at the trial of ten members of that
organization here to-day that he and
other members of the I. W. W. con?
spired to send poisoned canned goods
to the American soldiers in France
during the World War.
Towneend, who was a surprise wit?
ness for the prosecution against the
ten men, who are charged with violation
of the state criminal syndicalism law,
testified that in one of the big packing
houses in Chicago 300 or 400 Indus?
trial Workers were at work during the
war and that part of their task was to
test canned goods before shipment. In?
stead of condemning the cans, he said,
the Industrial Workers would let them
pass.
"We wanted to cripple the packers,
?ad also we were opposed to the war,",
Tcwnsend testified. "We used to say
'Let them poison Uncle Sam's damned
gunners.' "
Further, to spoil food contained in
the cans, Townsend said, the workers
drove in the nails on the boxes so they
would pierce the cans, and sometimes
nailsjWere driven through the boxes at
placop where they were not needed in
ordey to ruin the cor/ents.
Townsend testified that, under the
direction of Haywood, who now is in
Russia, he joined the various fighting
branches of the military services with
the purpose of spreading the I. W. W.
doctrine among the soldiers. He said
in 1820 he was a member of the ma?
rines stationed at Mare Island, Califor?
nia,
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.?-All "foot-loose"
members of the I. W. W. were called
upon to-day in an appeal issued by
members of the executive board meet?
ing her? to go to Portland, Ore., and
help win the water-front str'ke. A
total of 450 men is said to have been
arrested by the police in raids on I.
W. W. halls, according to the general
. defense committee of the I. W. W,
I I ' III I I ,
$33,000 to $30,000 h
Biggest Bet on Miller
G. B. de Chadenedes & Co., 20
Broad Street, yesterday made the
largest single bet of the present
Gubernatorial campaign in New
York State when they placed
$33,000 on Governor Miller
against $30,000 or former Gov?
ernor Smith, or at odds of 11
to 10.
At the close of the day De Cha
dendes & Co. were offering $20,
000 on Smith at odds of 5 to 6
and $25,000 on Miller at 11 to 10.
Betting on the United States
Senat?rship in New York is also
becoming more brisk. The same
firm yesterday placed one wager
of $2,000 against $4,000, or at
1 to 2, that Copeland will defeat
i Calder.
M-?,-?_I
Woman Induces
Crew of Ford
To Race To-day
Plea of Owner's Wife Again
Saves Fisherman Trophy
Contest From Disaster
on Rocks of Dissension
Bluenose Eager for Fray
Canadians See Victory in
Fresher Winds; Winner
Not to Meet Mayflower
By Frederick B. Edward?
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 24.?For
the second time in two days Mrs. John
Raymond, the wife of a part owner of
the schooner Henry Ford, has saved
the international fishermen's races from
humiliation, To-night, after anothar
day of frenzied controversy, Mrs. Ray?
mond and her husband loaded the crew
of the Ford on a motor bus and took
them up to the Raymond home for
dinner. Mr. Raymond announced that
this was to be a celebration of the
Ford's victory of Monday, but it was
pretty generally understood that the ob?
jective behind tho Invitation was a
free discussion of the matter among
the people who were most vitally inter
ested-wnd without outside interference
At 11 o'clock word came from the
Raymond home that the Ford would
nice. Tho announcement was made by
Mr. Raymond and backed by Captain
Clayton Morrissey, who before the Ray?
mond dinner had been exceedingly
non-committal in his attitude. The
word that the Ford would race was re?
ceived with enthusiasm throughout the
town. The Gloucester people believe
that the Ford can trim the Bluenose in
any weather.
The extra tonnage on the Ford will |
be taken out to-night and the sailing]
committee, with the consent of the Ca?
nadians who are interested in the Blue?
nose, will ignore the incident, a-sports?
manlike performance which will help,
adjust a trying situation.
The start to-morrow will be made
at 11 o'clock, not at 10, as the rules
demand. The postponement was made
voluntarily by the sailing committee in
order to allow the men of the Ford
time to take out the ballast.
Captain John Matheson, the Ford's
mate, said to-night after the Raymond
meeting that the decision to race was
reached in response to an apparent
public desire that the Ford should fin?
ish the series and not permit it to go
by default.
"This does not alter the men's feel?
ing in the matter," Matheson said.
"We si/ill believe that we have already
won that cup, but since the people of
Gloucester seem to desire it, we will
go out and do it all over again."
Captain Morrissey said: "It looks as
if we will race," and refused to talk
further.
It seemed possible at one stage of
to-day's proceedings that the Elizabeth
Howard, of New York, would sail in
the Ford's place. Captain Ben Pine
of the Howard offered to send her to
the line if the Ford withdrew, The
committee took no action on the offer,
but it was favorably considered as an
alternative, in case the Ford declined
the issue.
Smith Quits as Observer
Another announcement which was
r.ot received with any visible regret
was that Russell Smith, of Gloucester,
had resigned his position as official ob?
server on the Bluenose. Gaptain Angus
Walters has charged that it was Smith
who sent the message to the commit?
tee on Saturday that the Bluenose re?
fused to return, after a patrol had
been sent te bring the boats back.
Sm'-'h has never directly denied this.
Whether justly or otherwise, the
Gloucester public has been inclined to
(Continue! OR paga atghf)
Death Warning Prohibits
Lecture on Searles Case
Letter From New York Tells
Dr. Bowker He Will Lec
%nr* nt Pi? Pe***il
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 24.?Be?
cause he refused to modify his plans to
lecture on new facts gleaned on the life
of Edward F. Searles, late Methuen
millionaire and art fancier, Dr. John
C. Bowker is being threatened by mys?
terious agencies which would do bodily
harm and perhaps inflict death as a
punishment upon the Lawrence phy?
sician if he does not obey the demands.
A letter posted at the Varick Street
(New York) postal station late on the
night of October 23 Remands that the
lecturer quit his purpose and dares
him to deliver the talk "at your peril."
Several written and phoned warnings
have been received which the police
are investigating. The New York po?
lice were notified of the threat sent
from that city.
Dr. Bowker had refrained from giv?
ing his original talk on Searles until
after the body cf the millionaire was
exhumed for autopsy purposes at the
order of the District Attorney. Since
then he has pursued an individual in?
quiry into the wilds of Africa for cer?
tain information to confirm other evi?
dence he is said to have obtained in
different cities of th? United States.
Berlin Calls
In Experts to
Halt Collapse
Foreign Advisers Will Be
Invited to Conference
to Discuss Measures ;
U. S. Counsel Is Sought
Allies in Harmony
w
On Reparations
Britain Consents to Hold
Germany in Default if
Internal Reforms Fail
BERLIN, Oct. 24 (By The Associated
Press).?It is semi-offic.ially announced
that tho German government will in?
vite a number of prominent financial
experts to come to Rerlin and discuss
measures for the stabilization of the
mark.
Among the experts who are to be in?
vited by the government for the con?
ference are Professor John Maynard
Keynes, the British financial expert;
Professor Cassel, of Sweden; Dr. G.
Vissering and Professor Jeremiah W.
Jenks, of New York University, former
financial adviser to -the Chinese gov?
ernment. Professor Jenks is now in?
vestigating economic conditions in Ger?
many. It is also said that a leading
official of the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York will bo invited.
PARIS, Oct. 24 {By The Associated
Press).?A modification of Great Brit?
ain's position regarding reparations,
indicated by Sir John Bradbury at a
meeting of tho Reparation Commission
this afternoon, will mako it possible
f?-)r the commission to leave Paris for
Berlin next Sunday with a unanimous
Allied agreement on what measures
will be irrn.osed on Germany's financial
administration for the purpose of
averting a total collapse of that coun?
try.
The members of the commission are
agreed that the time har. come to take
radical action on the German situation
if the complete financial break-down of
Germany is to be avoided. The British
still hold that a long moratorium will
be necessary to place Germany on her
financial feet, aside from the good ef?
fect the new reforms mav have. The
American observer is believed to have
indorsed this view. The French still
contend that with the faithful carry?
ing out of the new measures Germany
soon will be able to resume reduced,
but nevertheless substantial, cash pay?
ment on her obligations.
Internai Reforms Insisted On
The unanimous decision to go to
Berlin was-taken after Sir John Brad?
bury had definitely made known that
he, on behalf of Great Britain, wa's
willing to vote to declare Germany in
voluntary default of her agreement,
provided she refused to carry out
within a reasonable time requests for
the internal reforms which the mission
will make in Berlin.
This was a big surprise to the
Reparations Commission, since it was
a decided concession to the French
viewpoint. Heretofore the British
representative had refused to declaro
Germany in default under any condi?
tions, and also had declined to be a
party to any move which might be con?
strued as interfering with Germany's
internal affairs.
Sir John had told M. Barthou, the
French representative on the commis?
sion, that he thought the commission
had the right to "suggest" certain
drastic reforms in Germany's internal
financial system, to the end that the
budget might be balanced and the mark
stabilized. Should Germany fail to
make every effort to put the proposed
reforms into effect and thereby
jeopardize her indemnity payments,
Sir John thinks the time would then
have arrived for the commission for?
mally to declare Germany in voluntary
default.
May Defer Brussels Parley
It is not unlikely that the British
already have obtained certuin conces?
sions from the French government in
return. It is reported that these may
take the form of indefinitely postpon?
ing the Brussels financial conference,
placing the entire reparations problem
in the hands of the commission, a
point upon which Sir John Bradbury
has been strongly insistent. "
The exact character of the measures
to be imposed upon Germany will be
decided by the commission between
now and Sunday, certain general ideas
already having been broadly agreed to.
The gravest of reports concerning
the financial conditions in Germany
inspired the decision of the commis?
sion to proceed to Berlin. Roland W.
Boyden, the American unofficial ob?
server on the commission, was one of
the first to suggest the advisability of
an inquiry on the ground as the best
means for determining what additional
reforms should be imposed.
?a
Gulf of Mexico Storraswept
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24.?Another
storm is raging in the Gulf of Mexico
and there has been considerab'e dam?
age to shipping in all t}ie Gulf ports,
according to dispatches from Vera
Cruz.
Premier's Seal Lost
As Bonar Law Waits
LONDON, Oct. 24 (By The As?
sociated Press).?It developed to?
day that a hitch might occur in
tho formal ceremony of turning
over the Premier's office at 10
Downing Street, when Bonar Law
arrives to take possession, be?
cause of the loss or mislaying of
the Prime Minister's seal of office.
Lloyd George's clerks are still
searching for tbe seal, missed
during the general house cleaning
occasioned by his removal.
One of the former Premier's
personal secretaries, G. H. Shake?
speare, declared he had been on
duty two years and had never
seen the seal.
Bergin Died in
Fight for Gun,
Cline Swears
Defendant Tells Court of
Struggle With Picture
Stunt Actor That Ended
in Death of the Latter
Case to the Jury To-day
Victim Fainted a? Libertine
by Defense Witnesses
as Trial Nears Close
Before his death at the hands of
an outraged husband, it was the cher?
ished ambition of Frank Bergin to rise
from mediocrity in motion pictures and
become a star?a hero of Main Street.
Alive, Jack Bergin failed of such
success. As a motion picture actor he
remained virtually a nonentity. But
for a few fleeting moments yesterday,
though he has been in his grave for
two months, Bergin caused Main Street
to throb to the base of its cobble?
stones. His role was that of a villain.
In the Bergen County courtroom, in
Hackensack, jammed to the "S. R. O.,"
Main Street shuddered and gasped as
the story of Jack Bergin was unfolded.
But the scenario was not of Jack
Bergin, the "movie" actor. It was of
Jack Bergin, the man?the story of his
death at the hands of his erstwhile
friend, George Cline, for alleged trans?
gression of the "unwritten law."
Women Assail Dead Man
Main Street heard three women who
had entered B?rgin'? life?and left it
considerably the worse for the experi?
ence? paint him as a twentieth cen?
tury monster. It leaned forward in
sympathy as one, his wife, declared
he had deserted her, leaving her with
a baby to support. It quivered in
horror as pretty, blond-hairea Alice
Thornton, his sweetheart and a co
defendant with Cline in the murder
trial, related that Bergin had drugged
and wronged her in a New York apart?
ment. And it wept, appreciatively and
unabashed, when the supreme climax
of all was reached?Mrs. Mamie Cline's
story of how she was attacked by
Bergin in a hotel at Saranac Lake, the
incident which led her husband to take
the law into his own hands.
And then, after these narratives.
Main Street sat in wonderment and
watched the three women as they com?
muned in a friendly sorority of sorrow
in the little white and tan courtroom.
Throughout the day's proceedings,
which completed the case for the de?
fense, Mrs. Bergin sat with Mrs. Cline
and the latter's two fiaxen-haired
small children, Conrad and Mildred, on
a bench among the spectators.
Mrs. Cline fr?re the witness stand
related how, after she told her hus?
band, in Bergin's presence, of his at?
tack, when the actor and Miss Thorn?
ton had been called to the Cline home
for the purpose, Bergin turned to
Cline and said dramatically:
"Shoot Me!" He Demands
"George, for God's sake shoot mel"
And again Mrs. Cline quoted Bergin
as saying to her husband a moment
after this denouement:
"Your wife is a bum. You know,
George, that all women nowadays are
cou-tesans."
The trial opened Monday, the prose?
cution completing its case by night
fa'l. Yesterd.??\the defense nut in its
entire case, even to a visit ?4 the jury
?six of which are women, with a
twenty-five-, ear-old stenographer as
foreman?to the Cline home in Edge
water, where the killing took place.
To-day, possibly by noon, the case is
expected to go to the jury and there
probably will be a verdict by night.
State Senator W. B. Mackay jr., in
charge of the defense, opened yester?
day's proceedings by an outline of tho
case for his three clients?Cline, Miss
Thornton and Charles Scullion, Mrs.
Cline's brother. The two last named
are accused as accessories in the
murder.
"If Cline had shot Bergin immedi?
ately after hearing his wife's story,"
he said, in establishing the "unwritten
law" as a chief basis for the defense,
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Diamond Thieves Crack Safe
Below Dead line; Get $75,000
Efforts of the Police Department to
suppress news of a daring diamond rob?
bery failed yesterday when it became
known that $75,000 worth of unset gems
had been stolen from the safe in the
store room of the firm of Sluyter &
Blitz, diamond cutters at 108 Fulton
Street. The robbery was one of the
cleverest reported to the police in
months, and was so successful that the
police are without a clew.
Some time between last Saturday
noon and Monday morning experienced
safe robbers gained entrance to the
concern's loft, which is on the third
floor of a building well below the no
lice "dead line" and bordering on the
financial district.
The loft is protected by electric
equipment and every entrance is heav?
ily barred, bvt this did not deter the
yeggmen. They apparently were
eq *ipped with an oxy-acetylene torch
*<nd used it effective1? to burn thro'igh
tha lock of an Iran barred gate, after
,7
which they cut their way around a lock
on a wo-den door, which admitted them
to the room in which the safe, with its
vp,"*,ble contents, stood.
The yeggmen probably worked on
this safe for hours before they finally
succeeded in burning out the combina?
tion, after which they worked the tum
: biers and opened the door. The inner
door was opened in a similar manner,
the torch oeing used to spring the
hinges.
Hyman W. Sluyter and Julius Blits,
who compose the firm, admitted the
robbery and plsced their lo-? at be?
tween $60,000 and $75,000. They re?
fused to discuss the details, saying that
the police had instructed them to say
, nothmjr.
No alarm-was sounded by the yegg
men during the hours in the building.
?The alarms were found all connected,
which leads to the theory that the
i robbers disconnected the wire on en
! terinc and reconnected it when leav?
ing. The burglary wag discovered when ,
?the work'hop wac opened for business
i Monday morning.
New British
Cabinet Is
Announced
Curzon,Foreign Secretary,
Is Also To Be Leader in
Commons; Irish Post
in Ministry Not Filled
Revision Probable
After the Election
Asquith Liberals Issue
Platform of Economy,
Peace and Disarmament
Bv Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribune's European Bweoo
Copyright., 1S52, N?w York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Oct. 24. ? Andrew
Bonar Law, Great Britain's new
Prime Minister, announced the
make-up of his Cabinet to-night at
the close of his first day in office.
The new Ministers are:
Lord President of the Council
Marquis of Salisbury.
Lord High Chancellor?Viscount
Cave.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Stanley Baldwin.
Secretary for Home Affairs
William C. Bridgeman.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Marquis of Curzon.
Secretary for the Colonies?The
Duke of Devonshire.
Secretary for India?Viscount
Peel.
Secretary for War?The Earl
of Derby.
First Lord of the Admira'ty?
Lieutenant Colonel L. C. M. S.
Amery.
President of the Boar?? of Trad?
Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme.
Minister of Health?Sir Arthur
Griffith-Boscawen.
Minister of Agriculture?Sir
Robert A. Sanders.
Secretary for Scotland?Vis?
count Novar.
Attorney General ? Douglas
McG. Hogg.
Lord Advocate?Honorable W.
A. Watson.
The Cabinet, not less than five of
whose principal ministers aside from
th? Lord Chancellor are members of
the House of Lords, follows closely the
appointment forecast in a cable to The
Tribune last Friday.
Curzon Leader in House
Marquis Curzon will also be leader
of the House of Commons, with Mar?
quis Salisbury, Lord President of the
Privy Council, as his deputy. Viscount
Peel Is another hold-over from the
Lloyd George Cabinet, as Secretary for
India. The Duke of Dev n hire re?
places Winston Churchill as Secretary
for the Colonies. Viscount Cave re?
places Lord Bivkenhead as Lord Chan?
cellor, and another peer?Viscount No?
var, one of the newest lord.;?is to be
Secretary for Scotland. As was freely
predicted, Stanley Baldwin, the steel
magnate, was named Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
Ministers who served in the coalition
Cabinet but who enter the new one in
different posts are Chancellor of the
Exchequer Baldwin, who was pressent
of the Board of Trade; Minister of
Health Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen.
who was Minister of Agriculture, and
Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme, who was Di?
rector of the Overseas Trade Depart?
ment.
No Secretary for Ireland
An interesting feature of the new
Cabinet is that ft is the first since the
act of union between Great Britain and
Ireland, in 1802, in which there has
been no Chief Secretary for Ire'and.
Sir Hamar Greenwood held the post in
the retiring ministry.
It is understood that the Cabinet
named this evening will be revised con?
siderably after the election, it will
serve as a stop-gap until the Conserva?
tive party shall have received p^nul-ir
approval for its administration. Among
the men who are expected to find
places in the post-election min'stry
are Reginald McKenna, formerly
Chancellor of the Exchequer under
Mr. Asquith, who, although a life?
long Liberal, has come out ?'or Bon*-ir
Law and the Unionists, and Sir George
Younger, Unionist whip, whose activ?
ity in organizing the conservative re?
volt of last February ?3 credited with
being largely responsible fe- tho
eventual overturn of the Georg<3
ministry.
The Asquith Liberals are first in the
field with a definite election program.
It calls for prompt revision o* rWm .j?
reparations and the inter-Allied debt
and disarmament to be obtained
through the League of Nations. Th%
manifesto, issued to-n:ght, also calls
for drastic economy in public expendi?
tures and the abandonment of a policy
of military adventures abroad. Other
main planks are for democratic reform
in the Hqncr licensing system and land
value taxation. Their social policy
is cauton. They do n-t comm't the-n
selves beyond recognizing the com?
munity's responsibility in securing
workers aga'ttst unemployment and
laying down honest, fair treatment a?
tho only brsis for industrial peace.
Tbe Socialist doct-^n* of ? a^f*-?
aga'nst private enterprise is con?
demned. The Lnborites K~v<. Y;\
ho'd'ng their program until the As
auith announcement had been made,
and their platform is expected to?
morrow.
Foreign PoMcy Condemned
The coalition's foreign policy brought
England perilously sear complete
isolation which but for Lord Curzon'a
i Ssits to Paris It would have achieved,
declared Viscount Grey, speaking at
Brad'ord to-night. He wai unable to
understand, he said, why Austen Cham?
berlain supported a government whoso
foreign policv w*s so ?lien *a **at
which he had jointlv supoort-d with
him. The former Foreign Secretary
spoke powerfully in favor o ooeu ng
" n~w ch?r>t.#r in fo'e'^m r^t'o^s.
There Is now the League of Nations,
vr..^s process wou'd have been faster
[bed the coalition government ?ncour
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