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VOL. XXV. NO. 168
UNDERWOOD IS OUT
FOR ENFORCEMENT
OF 0. S.DRY UMS
Use of Every Government
Agency to Enforce Prohi
bition is Advocated by
Senator From Alabama
HOUSTON. Texas, Oct. 28.—Sen
ator Oscar Underwood, speaking ata
luncheon here, came out flat
footed in defending his position on
two questions which are expected
to be storm senters of debate in the
next presidential primaries and elec
tion. He also stated his views clear
ly on a number of other issues. Con
trary to advance announcement, he
did not discuss the European situa
tion, referring to it only casually in
the course of his address.
Senator Underwood declared that
he stood for rigid enforcement of the
prohibition law, and favored using
revenue cutters and every other
agency of the government to stop thev
open flaunting of the eighteenth
amendment.
He declared that attempts by anv
secret organization to compel -i4je
government to enact legislation, or
any effort by "class or klan” to take
the law in its own hands, strikes at
the fundamental principles of democ
racy and threatens the existence of
ordered government in the United'
States. He referred to activities of
masked mobs as an evil brought on
by widespread violations of the law,
and declared that if respect for law
enforcement of the statutes is not
again practiced “worse evils” may
ensue.
Growth of Radicalism
He declared that he saw po reason
why men should not have secrc. or
ganizations for constructive pur
poses, for enjoyment and good fel
lowship, but for any secret organiza
tion to “compel the process of govern
ment” or to take the administration
of law into its own hands was con
trary to the great principles of de
mocracy. and invited national dis
aster.
The senator spent some time dis
cussing the grow’ing radicalism whic?
he declared is dominating one wing
of the Democratic and Republican
parties. The line is becoming marked
between radicals and conservatives,
he said, and he added, “1 don’t be
long to the radical group and neither
does true democracy.” Conservative
thought in politics guarantees prop
erty rights and the individual rights
of the citizen, so long as he keeps
himself within the law of the land,
he said.
Tne senator received liberal ap
plause when he declared that the
“government which governs least
governs best.”
“Radical elements, trying to tear
down the special privileges of one
class, have oeen most insistent in
creating other special privileges,” he
asserted.
State’s Rights Defended
Senator Underwood defended the I
doctrine of state’s rights with ret- I
erence to taxation, declaring that cit
izens of the states have been com
pelled to support by their money
many national activities which prop
erly should fall in the province of
state government.
He switched to a discussion of |
class legislation, asesrting that ?f
the government is to fill its mission
of greatest usefulness to all peo
pie, it must again adopt the old Dem
ocratic principle which decreed that
there shall be no special privileges
and no class legislation in ths
United States. “There should be no
government behind close ddoors,” he
said.
The congressman who votes for a
measure because some class favors
it, violates his oath just the same as
if he should vote for the measure be
cause someone had said, “it will be
to your interest to favor it,” he af
firmed. Cheers greeted this state
ment.
The senator spoke a word to the
women who were present. He ex
plained that he voted against ;
national suffrage amendment, not
because he did not believe women
equally as capable as men, but be
cause he holds the belief that suf
frage is a matter belonging inher
ently to the states, and that the fed
eral government should not enact
suffrage regulations.
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
BIRTHPLACE OF ROOSEVELT
IS DEDICATED AS NATIONAL
SHRINE TO MEMORY OF 7. R.’
- Birthday Is Marked by
Impressive Ceremonies.
: Coolidge Sends Message to
Gathering at New York
NEW YORK, OCt. 28.—The fine
old colonial mansion in which Theo
dore Roosevelt was given to the
nation —half hidden now by the of
fice buildings that tower above it at
28 East Twentieth street—was con
secrated on his birthday Saturday as
national shrine of American pa
triotism.
While a small group of disciples
of the great American listened in
his restored birthplace to the words
of men who had knorim him well,
thousands of navy day celebrators.
visited the harbor to see ships of
the modern fleet which his influ
ence had helped to develop.
Chrysanthemums were dropped
on his grave by five army planes
which flew to Oyster Bay and then
over the Twentieth street home,
where a throng had assembled in
front to hear through amplifiers the
ceremonies inside.
Among the aviators was Captain
Charles Nungesser, French ace, who
served with Quentin Roosevelt, son
of the late president, who was shot
down in action in France.
More than a thousand Boy Scouts
made their fourth annual pilgrim
age to the grave of their former
chief scout citizen.
As truly a savior of the country
as was Lincoln, was the estimate of
Roosevelt sent the gathering by
President Coolidge,
“We Americans have deep cause
to be grateful,” the president’s mes
sage said, “that 65 years ago today
Theodore Roosevelt, half of the
north, half of the south, a son of
the east, an adopted son of the west,
came to this nation to shape its des
tinies in a critical hour. Roosevelt,
like Lincoln, was in a true sense a
preserver of our national unity.
Lincoln saved us from sectional
cleavage, Roosevelt saved us from
class cleavage.
“So swnftly at times does the true
word, courageously spoken, estab
lish itself, that today we have al
most forgotten that there was a
time when the regulation of cor
porations seemed to many minds
unnecessarily radical. He spoke
stern words where needed without
fear and without favor. We are a
united nation; we will remain a
united nation.
“It was Roosevelt who taught us '
that unjustified discontent finds no
lodgment in a nation where the dis
content which is justified secures a
prom pt remedy.”
Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz
Highest Paid Electrician,
Worked Without Salary
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 28.
Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, who
died in his home here Saturday morn
ing of myocarditis, the “highest paid
electrical engineer in the world,” left
virtually no estate, it was learned
Saturday. His books and papers, an
electric automobile made in 1912,
and a $1,500 insurance policy, the
same as is issued to all veteran em-|
ployes of the General Electric com
pany, apparently comprise the entire
worldly weath of the scientist and
inventor.
The man Who “made lightning” j
probably could have made millions, I
but apparently he never drew a sal
ary, and, when he entered tne em-|
ploy of the General Electric com- i
pany a score of years ago, declared i
he “did not wish to work for money.”
“I do not wish to work for mon
ey,” said Dr. Steinmetz. “Let me
draw it as I wish and if I draw
too much, tell me. Do not fix an
amount. If I think of money I will
not work as well. Build me a house, I
if you wish, and a laboratory. That
is all I want.”
The body will lie in state for pub
lic homage tomorrow afternoon in
the house which the employing com
pany provided. Brief tributes will
be paid from city church pulpits to
morrow morning. Flags will be at
half mast and public buildings will
be draped. On Monday afternoon i
private funeral services will be held
in the home, and the body will be
interred in Vale cemetery. The Rev.
Ernst Caldecott, pastor of All Souls’
Unitarian church and Rev. A. W.
Clarke, a former pastor, will offi
ciate.
It was learned today that Oscar
Asmussen, a friend of the inventor in
Switzerland, led Dr. Steinmetz to
come to America thirty years ago
and paid the expenses of the voyage.
IN or Ld News
Told In
Brief
OKLAHOMA —Governor Walton
is ordered to appear November 1 for
trial before senate court of impeach
ment.
SHANGHAl.—Changsha dispatch
es say German missionary by name
of Strauss has been captured by
bandits and held for SIO,OOO ransom.
W ASHINGTON. Lloyd George
thanks disabled war veterans in
Walter Reed hospital for their con
tributions to freedom of the world.
MEMPHIS.—SIight earth tremors
are felt over large part of Arkansas,
southwestern Tennessee and Missis
sippi. No damage is reported.
FERRARA Italy.—Ruins of en
tire ancient city, believed to ante
date Romans by perhaps a thousand
years, have been discovered near
here.
WASHINGTON. Announcement
of Frank B. Kellogg’s appointment
as ambassador to Great Britain
causes stir and surprise in Wash
ington.
PORTSMOUTH, O. Over two
hundred members of Ku Klux Klan
are arrested when they attempt to
parade in violation of order of May
or Gablen m.
WASHINGTON. Governor Pin
chot in letter to Secretary Mellon
attributes collapse of federal prohi
bition enforcement in Pennsylvania
to federal permit system.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—E. L. Stoni
ger, of Lincoln, Neb., flying German
fokker, wins 110-mile air race for
commercial planes by average speed
of 117.4 miles an hour.
LONDON.—Mob of several thou
sand unemployed seize Krupp works
at Essen, according to dispatch to
Daily Express. At least seven are
killed and 200 wounded in rioting.
WASHINGTON. lncome taxes
from 7,018,583 individuals and firms
in 1921, totaled $1,420,962,438 wi'h
only one man, undesignated, show
ing income of more than five millio.
dollars.
DUSSELDORF. Agreement is
reached between French economic
authorities and Krupp officials for
continuation of operations of
Krupp plant and delivery of repara
tions coal to allies.
DRESDEN. Premier Zeigner
notifies central government at Ber
lin that Saxon npinistry has voted
to disregard Chancellor Streseman-n’s
ultimatum, calling for its resigna
tion.
RICHMOND, Va.—Lloyd George
pays tribute to Stonewall Jackson
and stands bareheaded before monu
ment marking spot where southern
general fell mortally wounded near
Chancellorsville, Va.
LONDON.—Tomb, presumably of
a Pharaoh, ig reported to have been
found in Minieh province, about half
way between Cairo and Luxor, where
tomb of Tutankhamen was un
earthed last j car.
BERLIN.—Upon receipt of Pre
mier Zeigner of Saxony’s refusal to
comply with demands of central gov
ednment, Chancellor Stresemann an
nounces that a civil governor to ad
minister the affairs of Saxony will
be appointed.
■WASHlNCTON.—Consolidation of
war and navy departments into de
partment of national defense as pro
vided in goverurment reorganization
plan probably will not be approved
by President* Coolidge, it is inti
mated.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Washing
ton elm, under whose branches
George Washington took command
of Continental army in 1775, crash
es to earth when workmen try to re
move limbs which had become men
ace to public. Aged tree died last
summer.
BERLIN —French are said to be
giving separatists open support and
protection, and official quarters are
regarded as anything but sanguine
over Rhineland situation. Entire
press of Aix-la-Chapelle is said to
have ceased publication because of
censorship.
WASHINGTON.-—Three of crew
ip United States submarine 0-5 are
drowned in sinking of submarine
after collision with steamer Aban
garez near Atlantic entrance of Pan
ama canal; six other men are re
ported in submerged.vessel and their
fate is unknown, late Panama dis
patch declares.
ST. LOUIS.-—Call for a convention
of the Mississippi Valley association
to be held in Memphis. November
22 and 23, to formulate definite pro
gram for completion of improvement
work on Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois
and Missouri rivers, is issued by
James E. Smith, president of asso
ciation.
SAMPIGNY. Premier Poincare,
in a speech, declares that France
will refuse to allow reparations com
mission to be divested of any of its
functions or replaced by any other
body and that France, would never
consent to reduction of German
reparations payments. He says that
American representation on commit
tee to investigate Germany’s ca
pacity to pay will be welcomed, but
that committee’s action , must be
bounded by terms of Versailles
treaty. Official communique issued
in Paris also makes same state
ments.
E. Y. Clarke Trial
In Mann Act Case
Set for November 19
HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 29.—Ed
| ward Young Clarke, former imperial
giant of the Ku Klux Klan, will stand
: trial here November 19 on charges
I of violation of the Mann act, prefer-
I red against him here several months
| ago.
i This date was set through ar
rangement with Clarke’s attorneys
in Atlanta, Ga., it was learned at the
federal district attorney’s office here
today.
CASUALTIES HEAVY !
AS CITIZENS FIGHT \
TROOPS IM SAXONY!
Ultimatum Sent by Strese
i mann to Dresden and Ba
varia Separatists Form
New Government
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—(8y the Asso- '
dated Press) —The Ebert-Stresemann
government fired the opening guns
tonight in its battle for unchal
lenged authority within the federa
tion of the German states by dis
patching an ultimatum to Dresden
| demanding the immediate retirement
I of Dr. Zeigner’s Socialist-Communis
I tic government, and simultaneously
' demanding of the Bavarian govern ;
ment the restoration of the BerlifS I
government’s military authority
within that state.
The central government’s commu
nication to Premier Zeigner brands
the latter’s ministry as an. outlaw
government -whose- members openly
incited the population of Saxony to
riot and to defy the existing mar
tial law and the 'central govern
ment’s authority in general, under
the existing state of emergency. ,
The ultimatum virtually gives :
Zeigner and his radical cabinet mem- I
bers twentj r -four hours to resign.
While the manner of speech em- ;
ployed in the official communication j
to the Saxon premier transcends tra- I
ditional diplomatic forms, its note to
the Munich government is couched
in considerably milder terms, hard
ly more than a plain request that
Gei eral von Lossow, the mutinous j
reichswehr commander of the fed
eral trcop contingents garrisoned in |
Bavaria, and that these be restored
to the jurisdiction of Dr. Gessler,
minister of defense, and his chief of
staff, General von Seeckt.
The communistic baiting of the
reichswehr in Saxony by Zeigner’s
minister of finance, Boettcher, and
his chief of the chancellery, Brand
ler, both rabid Communist agita
tors, is directly responsible for Ber
lin’s determination to put Saxony’s
present ultra-red regime out of busi
ness.
Both of these officials, in recen J
speeches, advocated preference for
“red terror” against -white dictator
ship, and practically called upon the
Communists there to arm and take
up physical opposition to the reichs
wehr.
FIFTEEN ARE KILLED
IN FOOD RIOTING
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—Fifteen per
sons were killed and many wounded
today in a clash between soldiers
and civilians at Freiburg, Saxony, a
dispatch from there said.
Early reports appeared to indi
cate it was the most serious dis
tubance between troops and popu
lace yet reported in the trial of
strength between the federal and
Saxon state governments.
The troops fired the first volley,
killing twelve outright and wound
ing between 20 and 30, were answer
ing an emergency call to suppress a
food riot, later dispatches reported.
They marched into the street of
the town where excitement was al
ready tense with food riots in the
little market places.
Crowds of unemployed workmen
with women and children confronted
the military and refused to disperse.
The order was given to clear the
streets.
Over the heads of the crowd came
a shower of stones on the troops.
Then pistol shots rang out from the
crowd and from behind corners.
The soldiers fired straight into
the crowd. That cleared the streets
of all but dead and wounded.
But the crowds returned. Worn
en joined in throwing stones.
Sprinkled among the mobs that
pressed closer and closer to the sol
diers w r ere men believed to be com
munists, armed with revolvers.
As their atack on the building oc
cupied by the military grew more
and more serious, the soldiers re
ceived orders to fire again to clear
the streets.
Another three lives were lost as
the disciplined troops repulsed the
wild crowds.
The presence of federal troops in
the towns, brought there to aid Gen
eral Mueller in preserving the au
thority of the central government,
caused unrest in many parts of Sax
ony and more serious trouble was
feared.
SEPARATISTS FORM NEW
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press) —The news that the
Rhineland separatists have actually
former a provisional government is
not taken seriously in official quar
ters here, where it is declared that I
the new “ministers” have nothing t> ,
govern. It is represented that the |
separatists, wherever they have uc- I
ceeded in lodging themselves, are !
only able to maintain their positions I
by support and protection from the I
Franco-Belgian occupation authori
ties.
Will Lose $62,000
Unless He Marries
By November I Ith
EATON. Col., Oct. 29. —A wife by
November 11 will be worth $62,000 I
to J. P. Cominsky, 23 an employe of
the Great Western Sugar company !
here. A year ago an uncle left that I
sum to young Cominsky, provided
h e married by Armistice Day, 1923.
Otherwise the $62,000 goes to char
ity. As the deadline draws near
Cominsky fears he may not find the
“right girl.”
/ CAM I HELP \ jkH I’’l Ik /
( You WiTh Youe
( BAGGAGE, SIR / / -
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RIVER IS DJIAGGEO
IN VAIN FOR BODY
OF P. 0. BAGGETT
With entanglements stretched
across the river at
various points in the hopd that they
might catch the body' of P. Riburn
Baggett, Douglas county produce
farmer who has been missing since
Friday night, Sheriff A. L. Baggett,
of Douglas county, a brother of the
missing man, aided by a corps of
county police officers, continued
I Monday to drag the river.
Early Monday afternoon the
weary searchers stated their efforts
had been fruitless so far, but they
expressed determination to continue
until some,clue to the mystery had
been found.
Meanwhile the county police clung
to the theory that Baggett was mur
dered, possibly for what money he
hapened to have on his person, and
that his body was thrown into the
river at the Mayson-Turner road
bridge, where his automobile truck
was found, or else cleverly.concealed
in the surrounding woods.
Four hours Saturday night they
dragged the river for several miles
below the bridge in an effort to re
cover the body, and all day Sunday
thoroughly combed the surrounding
territory. Their search was fruit
less, although they were asisted by
hundreds of citizens of the commu
nity, many of whom knew Mr. Bag
gett personally.
Sheriff Baggett believes his broth
er was murdered and the body
thrown into the river. Fearing that
it has possibly drifted down too far
to be recovered by dragging opera
tions he plans to stretch barbed
wire across the river at Austell fer
ry, ten miles below the bridge, and
to troll the banks on each ’Side be
tween the bridge and that point.
The first intimation that Baggett
had possibly met with foul play
while en route from Atlanta to his
home in Douglas county, was given
late Saturday when his automobile
truck was found at the bridge.
Near his truck, a bloody tire iron
wa t s found, as was also his hat. The
truck was standing with the front
wheel jacked up and the -tire re
moved. Mr. Baggett evidently had
been repairing a punctured tire. No
signs of a struggle were found in
the vicinity.
Mr. Baggett runs a truck farm in
Douglas county, and had been com
ing to Atlanta every day to dispose
of his produce. When he failed to
return Friday night, it caused no
surprise, as members of his familj 7
declared he frequently stayed over
night in Atlanta with his brother,
Noah Baggett, who is employed by
the Beck & Gregg Hardware com
pany.
however, when he failed to return
Saturday afternoon, a search was
begun and his truck found. Sheriff
A. L. Baggett, of Douglas county
said he believed his brother had
been murdered by highwaymen. He
said his brother usually brought
from $35 to SSO in cash home with
him. the proceeds from the sale of
his produce.
“My brother’s financial affairs are
!in good condition. He never drank
I or gambled, and I believe he has met
I with foul play,” said Sheriff Bag-'
! gett.
The last seen of the man was late
Friday afternoon when he stopped
I at a store near the river and pur
chased a box of automobile tire
patches.
The missing man was 40 years of
age, married and has seven children.
Memphis Windows
Rattled by / Slight
Earthquake Sunday
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 29.—Slight,
i but distinct earth tremors were felt
, in Memphis and over a large part of
I Arkansas and Mississippi at 11:14
:Sunday.
. Windows were rattled in this city
and newspapers were deluged with
telephone inquiries from Pine Dhift,
Ark., Tunica and Tupelo. Miss., and
numerous other towns.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, October 30, 1923
The Friend in Need
Burned Skeleton
Os Missing Alabamian
Found Tied to Fence
BUTLER, Ala., Oct. 29.—The
Choctaw county grand jury was ex
pected to begin inquiry this week
into the mystery surrounding the
death of Drew Connor, whose skele
ton was found wired to a fence sev
eral months ago.
Authorities who made a prelimi
nary investigation declared that the
man’s body had been partly cre
mated. Several weeks elapsed after
Connor’s disappearance from home
before the body was discovered.
More than twenty arrests were
made after County Solicitor Cham
berlain, of Mobile, and other special
investigators had spent weeks on the
case. Mr. Cha.mberlain, who was
named by the attorney general to
inquire into the case, is here to as
sist the grand jury which is ex
pected to take up the Connor case
early in the week.
Among the number arrested as
suspects in connection with the case
are neighbors of Connor. What evi
dence may be in the hands of the in
•astigators has not been made pub
lic.
Connor, said by authorities to have
been regarded by his neighbors as an
inoffensive young man, left home
one night in the early summer, nev
er to return. After days of waiting
his family oegan a search which
continued for eight weeks when por
tions of his body bound with wire to
a backwoods fence were discovered.
The county seat, thirty-five miles
from commercial telephone and tele
graph, is expected to be the center
of one of the greatest crowds in
its history during the inquiry, on
account of the widespread local in
terest in the case.
Middle Georgia Man
Likely to Be Given
Highway Board Post
Governor Walker has not yet con
sidered the appointment of a succes
sor to the late Mr. Robert C. Neely,
Swainsboro, as a member of the state
highway commission, and although
several names have been suggested
to him, he would not make them pub
lic Monday. He stated that he prob
ably would not announce the appoint
ment for several days.
Mr. Neely was appointed when the
highway commission was created in
1919. and drew the six year term. His
tenure of office would have expired
on December 31, 1925, giving his suc
cessor more than two years to serve.
It is probable that Mr. Neely’s suc
cessor will be selected from a middle
Georgia county, as the position is
looked upon as one belonging to a
middle Georgia man. Chaixjnan John
N. Holder is a resident of Jackson
county, in north Georgia, while Stan
ley Bennett, the third member of the
commission, is a South Georgian, re
siding in Quitman.
R is understood that the names cf
several Macon and Augusta men
have been suggested for the appoint
ment, in addition to that of J. O.
Gaston, of Butts county, who was
Governor Walker’s campaign mana
ger in the recent election. Mr. Gas
ton was in conference with the gov
ernor Monday, but declined to say
whether or not he would accept the
place on the highway commission, if
it were tendered him.
Goodyear Raincoat Free
Goodyear Mfg. Co. 6028-K Goodyear
Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., is making an
offer to send a handsome raincoat free
to one person In each locality who will
show and recommend it to friends. If
you want one, write today.
SIMMONS CHARGES
PLOT TO EVANS IN
M SUIT HEARING
An affidavit by Engperor William
Joseph Simmons to the effect that
Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans was
elected to his office at the klqnvoca
tion of the Ku Klux Klan last No
vember through the operation of a
deliberate plot to prevent Colonel
Simmons from allowing his name to
be placed in nomination, featured
the opening of the hearing on a pe
tition for receivership for the klan,
filed by David M. Rittenhouse, of
Philadelphia, and others, before
Judge John D. Humphries Monday
in the motion division of Fulton su
perior court.
This affidavit, together with «
number of others charging extrava
gances on the part of imperial offi
cers of the klan, was read by Attor
ney William S. Coburn, representing
the Rittenhouse faction. Attorney
Coburn had not finished the presen
tation of his evidence when court
adjourned at 2 o’clock for the day.
Tells of Alleged Plot
Colonel Simmons’ affidavit charged
that on the night before the klon
vocation, F. L. Savage and a man
named Stephenson had called on him
and told him that on the folowing
evening “somebody” would attack
Colonel Simmons’ character on the
floor of the klonvocation if his name
was placed in nomination as imperial
wizard. He said the two men assured
him that the person who made the
attack would be “shot down in his
tracks.”
The affidavit declared, however,
that Colonel Simmons had agreed to
have his name withdrawn from the
nomination “to avoid trouble.’’
About two weeks later, it asserted,
he found that his conversation with
Savage and Stephenson had been a
part of the plot to prevent him from
entering the race for imperial wiz
ard.
Colonel Simmons’ affidavit also
charged that the Evans faction was
making an effort to “destroy” The
Searechlight, the official klan pub
lication, by preventing its circulation
to members of the order. Recently
in Kansas City, he declared, a large
number of copies of the paper which
had been sent there for distribution
were destroyed by Kansas City klan
officials.
An affidavit by Henry J. Norton,
exalted cyclops of Nathan Bedford
Forrest klan, No. 1, declared that
large amounts of funds belonging to
the order had been expended in con
tributions to political campaigns
against candidates antagonistic to
the klan. He declared that about
$27,000 had been expended in such
manner in Chicago.
Six Tiny Adventurers
Start in Lake Michigan
In Rowboat for Spain
CHICAGO, Oct. 29—Six small
boys started rowing eastward across I
Lake Michigan late Sunday, headed
for Spain.
A spanking offshore breeze began
dashing weaves into their flat-bottom
boat after they were about a mile
out, and they decided to return home.
Tiny arms could make no headway
against the wind, however, and the
boys still were headed for Spain
when Ogden T. McClurg’s sailing
yacht Ariel, champion R-class boat
of the Great Lakes, nosed by within
hailing distance, and picked up the
young sailors.
f “The biggest boy was not more
than ten years old, and the small
est was only four,” said Harold
Manning, skipper of the rescuing
craft.
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DF REPARATIONS
France Gives Indication of
Willingness to Agree to
Delayed Payments and
Granting Germans Time
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The
United States government expects
almost momentarily the invitation
of the powers to the proposed ex
pert economic conference.
This will be the procedure in put
ting the conference in motion, it was
understood here:
1. Great Britain now is receiving
the replies from the different pow
ers to the American proposition for
the conference, set forth in the
Hughes note to Great Britain.
2. When definite and formal ac
ceptances have been received from
all the interested powers. Great
Britain will forward these accept
ances, includng her own, in a note
to the American government.
3. Either with the forwarding of
these acceptances, or soon after,
London formally will dispatch to the
United States a joint invitation on
the part of the powers for the Amer
ican government to participate in
the expert conference.
4. Then conversations will be en
tered into with the reparations com
mission to secure the selection of
representatives of the different
countries for the conference as de
sired by the respective governments.
5. The conference’, it 'is believed,
will be convened in Paris, the seat
of the reparations commission, ,
which, under the conditions of the
French acceptance, is to appoint the
delegates to the conference with
the approval of the governments.
After some deliberations, the con
ference is expected to fnove to Ber
lin, in order.more thoroughly and
effectively to carry out its mission
to judge German’s capacity to pay
rt'paratio’. s.
Secretary of State Hughes, the
man who intervened at the eleventh
hour in the European crisis, to set
into motion the effort which it Is
hoied will bring about a settlement
of the reparations controversy, key
to Europe's ills, today was wanting
further developments from the for
eign chancellories.
While the text of none of the re
plies from the different interested
powers bad been received here, this
government believes on the basis of
official advices that not alone
! rance but Great Britain, Belgium
and Italy virtually have agreed to
the American proposition.
POINCARE WOULD AGREE
TO DELAYED PAYMENTS
PARIS, Oct. 27.—Premier Poin
care today instructed M. Barthou.
brench representative on the repara
tions commission, to insist on the
strictest application of the Versailles
treaty in dealing with Germany.
He said France would not object
to the reparations commission grant
ing Germany a delay in payments or
a modification of the present sched
ule of payments.
France would never consent to a
reduction, however, he declared.
In view of the effort in Great
Britain to induce France to agree
to the expert inquiry into Germany's
capacity to pay as suggested by Sec
retary Hughes, and in view of
France’s qualified acceptance, this
statement was considered today a
great concession.
BRITAIN SEES HOPE
FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT
LONDON. Oct. 27.—Britain be
lieves America’s interest may this
time force a reparations settlement.
If anything can drive the pro
posed conference through the mesh
of European reluctance to relinquish
old school diplomacy, well informed
observers here said today it would
be Europe’s eagerness to court
America’s favor.
The great interest which the rep
arat’ons conference proposal created,
it was said, turned America’s spot
light on Europe and the European
performers will take pains to be seen
with clean hands.
France, and even more so, Bel
gium, feel it to be a vital necessity
not to appear in American eyes a a
stumbling blocks to any move that
will bring a settlement to Europe,
it was said.
Great Britain and Italy, whose
agreement with the proposal for a
conference was announced today,
have been for some time ready for
as far reaching a conference as they
ccu.’d get other European countries
to agree to.
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