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£ MANY'S LATEST R HELD HONEST Accepted by Public as Ample Concession in Reparation, A. G. Gardiner Says. SHOULD END DEADLOCK Rejeotion by French Premier May TIsolate His Nation, It Is Declared. BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain’s Greatest Liberal Editor. By Oable to The Star. LONDON, June 9—The issue of the German memorandum definitely has turned the tids of feeling in this coun- try. Public opinion emphatically ac- cepts the offer as an honest attempt on Germany's part to bring the present deadlock in Furope to an end. It is gonerally agreed that, whatever has been @ermany’s attitude hitherto, the pres- ent proposal concedes everything that can be asked. She leaves the question of total reparations untouched and sim- ply throws hersclf upon the decision. of impartial tribunal. It has long been ar to every instructed mind that there is no way out of the impasse except by negotiations, and this position s now the recognized view of this country. Query as to French Attitude. How will France meet the new situa- tlon? For the first time it is recog- nized that it is France's turn to make a_gesture of peace. Hitherto Poincare always has been able to take refuge in holding the German proposal inade- uate. That pose is no longer possible. rything is granted that Germany in ood faith can grant, including' the sur- render in the matter of national guar- antees of payments, leavig to expert in- ternational opinion the task of fixing the measure of liability. Will Poincare accept? Does he dare refuse? If he accepts, his whole policy goes by the ooard. If he refuses he will admit definifely that he will have no pacific sertlement that takes his hand off Ger- many's throat and will finally isolate France from the public opinion of the whole world. What, In these circumstances, will he do?’ Just now his purpose seems directed to confusing the issue by demanding that Germany cease her “'passive resistance” in the Ruhr. This svasion will not serve. The German proposal has dropped the condition that France evacuate the Ruhr, and British opinion regards this as’ con- clusive indication of the good faith of the proposal. But the idea that as preliminary to a settlement the Ger- man_people should accept formally the Invasion of the Ruhr—which the British government has never recog- riized—is strongly repudiated. It is notorious, moreover, that the “passive resistance” throughout has been a movement emanating from the peo- ple of the Ruhr themselves. Challenge to Baldwin. The situation confronts Baldwin with a grave challenge. Will he take a strong line or will he knuckle un- der to Poincare? It is difficult to see how he can support the Poincare de- mand without stultifylng the past policy of this country. ~From the very beginning England has dis- Colored Entertainers From Amel_"ica Give “W hiz Bang” and “Machine Gun” Stac- cato in Way to Delight the Poilu. BY RHETA CHILDE DORR. (Bpecial Correspondence of Tha Star snd Ohilcago Daily News.) PARIS, France, May 10.—The thou- sands of Americans who will visit Parls this summer for the first time since the world war will find the town changed fn many respects. To those who think Montmartre the paradise | they wish Greenwich village were the change will casily be apparent. Walk across the Place Pigalle, where | the “Dead Rat” and the “Rat Who Is Not Dead” glare across corners at each other in the night hours; walk down the Boulevard de Clinehy past the Moulin Rouge and the Lune Rousse; ‘wander down what side streets you will, and you will see strange eigns picked out with elec- trio lights, and floating from shut- tered windows will come the sound of music never heard in the quarter before 1914. The whizz bang and ma- chine gun staccato of jazz; whoever heard of jazz in the Montmartre of yore, or anywhere in the Paris of yore, for that matter? obody did until early in 1917, when the Casino de Parls put on as a novelty an act described as ‘le marvelleux Jazz_ Band du Mitchell Seven Spades.”” Parls was very sad early in 1917, and the manager of the casino thought a little ragtime by American negro musicians might All of Paris App , Feature of City’s Night Life lauds Jasz manded and received 50 and even 75 francs a day. French wa up very slowly, the managers being both obstinate and war-poor. But |now French, as well as colored per- formers, get much better wages than of old, Some French cabaret musi- clans get almost, as much as the jazz- ors. Indeed, some even own little farms in the country, and that is the equivalent to top hole to any Frenchman. The musicians’ union and the music hall managers were not the only Parisians with whom Mitchell had to dispute for succy Anywhere in this country the French resent let- ting their money get into any pocket but their own. In Paris it seems a scandal that it should do so. Still Mitchell got all the engagements he | could possibly fill at 1,000 francs a day, and more jazz bands arrived to draw good crowds. The Parisian managers have finally ceased to struggle. To them jazz is | just another horrid aftermath of war, like bolshevism and German evasion of ‘reparations—something to shrug the shoulders over and to endur Popular With the Colonial With the French colonial negrots the Americans have from the first been popular, if only as curlosities. The Frenchman likes and respects his black colonials, but he knows that some Americans consider their col- ored population socially inferlor. With characterlstic logic, the French- man argues that American colored men must be Inferfor to the African, which, of course, is far from being the case. This the colonials them- help to cheer things up. The Seven Spades made their debut at 2 matinee performance, and, to tell the truth, they didn't cheer anybody. The strange cacophony emitted by bap- Jos, gultars, saxophomes and drums SImply rasped the nerves of the sore- ly trled Parisians. The Mitchell Seven Spades were virtually hissed off the boards. But the manager, going be- hind, where the musicians were look- Ing very gloomy, told them not to be discouraged. Their act needed short- ening. toning down a little, perhaps, but as soon as it was adapted to French comprehension it would cer- tainly become popular. Trmm Quickly Wins Favor. he French have Mttle to teach American colored man in the way e optimism, so the jazzers spent what Wwas left of the afternoon trimming their act. They went on again that night, and, in'the words of Mitchell himself, they were a riot. Poilus home on leave, Tommies back from Flanders, French mothers and sweet- hearts, anxious-eyed. halled jazz as the best distraction they had known for three long years. All Paris flock- ed to' the casino to laugh and ap- plaud and cheer and call for more, The two-week contract was stretched to six, and then the seven spades moved to another hall. But they never moved out of Paris. With ono or two changes of personnel and un- der a new name—‘“Mitchell's Jazz Kings"—they have been “a riot” in Paris ever since. After the armistice mors and more cafes and music halls put in jazz bands, and now, in Montmartre aione 150 dark expatriates make enviable incomes banging out the latest hits from Tin Pan alley, or wherever jazz sociated herself from the Ruhr ad: venture. According to her interpre- tation of the treaty of Versallles, that adventure is contrary to conditions laid down in the peace terms. In view of all this, can Baldwin now call on Germany formally to condone an action England herself has repu- diated? It is_suggested in some quarters that Baldwin will seek to evade the dilemma by drawing a dis- tinction between the moral and eco- nomic aspects of the Ruhr adventure; that he will say that England is op- posed to it on economic grounds, but not on moral grounds, and that in these circumstances he supports the French demand as to conditlons. If this casulstry is employed the policy of buying off French opposition to a settlement will be carrfed to hu- miliating lengths. ‘World Sick of Ruhr Farce. On the other hand, if Baldwin takes & decisive stand on’ the ground that the German offer is bona flde and ought to be accepted. he will have the support of a powerful element. The world is sick of the Ruhr farce. Even France is disfllusioned. Italy is disillusioned. Belgium is more than disillusioned. She sees that there is no money in the farce and doesn’t want to ses France establish- ~d permanently in the Ruhr and her- self surrounded by that powerful neighbor. It is notorlous that Bel- glan opinton has swung far around in the direction of English opinion and the view prevails that Poincare's visit to Brussels failed to check the movement. Belgium cannot perma- nently consent to be a pawn in the hands of Poincare. My view is that Baldwin will stand firm. Tn a conversation with a per-; son closely connected with the gov-| ernment he sald: “Germany has gone down on her knees. If France refuses this offer, then nothing will satisty her URGES RUSSIA TO WIN BACK U. S. CONFIDENCE Irving T. Bush’'s Interviews With Soviet Leaders Heeded by Press in Moscow. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 9.—Accounts of in- terviews which Trving T. Bush of New York has had with government leaders and Russian business men are displayed at great length by the newspapers. Tn one of these talks Mr. Bush is quoted as_saying that the develop- ment of Russian industry through American capital and. credit is pos- aible, but that Russia, primarily, must win the confidence of Amerlca by guaranteeing the integrity of the fu- ture and recognizing .past Ametican investments. Izvestia, commenting on this, cites as an example the National City Bank. *This bank had & branch in Russia befors the revolution” says the paper. “In order to induce this bank to resume big operations in Russia it is necessary that the soviet govern- ment should regulate with it all ac- counts and guarantee the integrity of 1 its property. It iz clear what should be the way of an economic rapprochement between America and Russia, which is desirable for both is manufactured. Almost any ente prising and talented American_col- ored boy can make a living in Paris. In fact, he need not be too talented, for the French belfeve that any noise, vocal or instrumental, proceeding from an American negro, s perfect azz. Some of the music floating from shuttered indows in the nelghborhood of Place Pigalle will urge the tourist to move on rather than to go in. On the other hand some of the bands are excellent, and the best are so popular that the performers need never go back to the dry place unless they get homesick. With amazing ease the American colored boy acquires French, and, miraculously, it seems to him, he makes friends in'Paris. But that is because Mitchell and his jazz kings came before him and paved the way. Musicians Get Higher Pay. Mitchell's path was thorny, even after his great success in war time. The musiclans’ union, an even closer corporation than its prototype in the United States, made things as dis- agreeable as possible. In the first place, the musicien negre was an out- lander, and, in the second place, he was a’ disturber of the peace, as far as salaries and salary schedules were concerned. A French saxophone tor- mentor, previous to the advent of Mitchell, thought himself well paid at 18 francs a day. The Americans de- NORTH POLE FLIGHT TO START JUNE 20 Amundsen to Hop Off From Alaska on Twenty-Two-Hour Trip to Spitzbergen. By the Associated Press. BERGEN, Norway, June 9.—It Is now settled that Capt. Roald Amund- sen and his pilot, Omdal, will start on th¥r north pole flight from Wain- wright, Alaska, to Spitzbergen on or about June 20. The flight is expected to take about twenty-two hours. It is thought that the greatest dan- ger of engine fallure will arise after the machine has passed the pole and is approaching the edge of the polar ice north of Spitzbergen. In summer this ice pack s at a considerable distance north of the island. If Amundsen and Omdal are forced to land and abandon their aeroplane, they will, if within reasonable dis- tance of the ice edge, try to reach it on_eki. The Norwegian government has as- signed two naval hydro-airplanes and one fishing patrol vessel to assist in the quest for the pole. As soon as a message s received at Spitzbergen stating that Amundsen has started, the airplanes and patrol ship will at .once proceed to the edge of the ice. The vessel, which already has sailed for the island, will cruise long the ice rim, while the air- lanes will continue a mnorthward ight toward the pole to meet Amundsen and escort him home or to render help should the explorer countries.” 400 REPORTED DROWNED IN LOWER VOLGA REGION 70,000 Left Homeless in Series of Floods, Russian Dispatches to Stockholm ‘Say. STOCKHOLM, June 9—Russian eorrespondents of the Stockholmi Tidningen report that nearly 400 per- eons have been drowned and 70,000 rendered homeless by floods in the Lower Volga region. LENIN STILL IMPROVING. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 9.—Acting Premier Kameneft, addressing the communi arty of Moscow yesterday, said that ;r'mlor Lenin's health had greatly improved since his removal recently from the Kremlin to & villa near #0ls city. e nead it. —— APPROVE RUSSIAN PACT. Danish Houses of Parllament Grant: de Facto Recognition. COPENHAGEN, June 8. — Both houses of parliament today, by a big maljority, adopted a government mo- tion ""'“"fi the commercial agree- ment with ussia. By this action parliament grants de facto recogni- tion to the soviet government. BURN SIX JEWISH HOMES. WARSAW, June 9 (Jewish. Tele- graph Agency)—8ix -Jewish homes in the village of Zegielowka, Volhynia, have been destroyed by a fire, start- ed by peasants, who charged that the Jews of the:village had repre- sented the peasants to the soviet au. thorities as disloval. According to stories of the fires printed in Lem. [ berg newspapers & soviet expedition was dispatched to the village and the homes of sixty-seven peasants were destroved by 'the soviet agents as ‘Apunishment. n e e e e R e S R selves know, and they like their brothers from the.land of opportun- ity, although why blacks should have less opportunity there than whites they cannot understand. They dis- cuss it endlessly with the imported jazz band players. They also discuss oddities of shades and variation of color and of feature among the Americans. Mitchell, who after six years' residence with his family in Paris, is now the leader of the whole American colored colony, friend and patron of new arrivals, and a nabob in the eyes of the French colonlals, puzzles them most of all. Mitchell ‘is a mulatto, with wavy rather than woolly hair, and fine, straight features “Pourquoi?” asks the colonfal— “pourquoi” being the French way of saying “how come?’ Mitchell ex- plains that his home town was New York, and that his grandmother. living, at the age of 98, is almot last survivor of a Long Island tribe of Indians. Mitchell, then, is not a negro but a sauvage! More wonder that he has grown so rich and great! Mitchell has not grown rich, but he 15 pretty well on the way. Less than a year ago he gave up playing and leading jazz to open a cafe at b2 Rue Pigalle. Ask anvbody in the neigh- torhcod, ‘and you will be directed. But certainly M'sieur. Par icl tout droit pour le cafe des negres. Don't go there too early—too early in the "evening, that s to say. Mitchell's place nominally opens at 11:30 pm.. but things do not really start there urtil around 2 o'clock in the mornirg. From 2 until 9 or 10 am. the place is crowded, and cham- ragne flows like beer at Carlsbad. Serve Real Chicken Diuner. The Russian patrons mix vodka with tneir champagne, the vodka coming first, and the barkeeper can mix_any kind of a cocktail But champagne is the real vin du pays in Montmartre, and If vcu cannct af- ford it at anywhere from fifty to a hundred francs a bottle do not go to Montmartre. The starving Russians afford it and smash the gluss on the oor after each drink. All the other habitues afford 1t and pay handsomely besides for the gen- uine old southern cooking which is the fcature of Mitchell's. You can get real chicken Maryland, real buck- wheat cakes, real baked ham, real American bacon and eggs and real coffee at Mitchell's, and it is increas- ingly the fashion to wind up a Mont- marire night with a breakfast thare of these delectabl Guests get as a souvenir a negro doll cock with cap and apron, broad grin and saucepan. Mitchell's place is too small for a jazz band, but he has an orchestra of a plano and two sax- cphones. Likewise, he has woman singers, one a beautlful African-Eng- Iieh girl So strolling through Montmartre this summer, if you smell fried chick- en eand hear a rich throaty volce trolling out— o all over that's Mitchell's Can you imagine It —in Montmatre? 'BANDITS IN MEXICO . ROB TRAIN, KILL ONE ; Engine and Four Cars Derailed, Flying Column Pursues Brigands After Bitter Fighting. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 9.—An at- tempt by bandits to rob a passenger train bound from Jalapa to Puebla, north of Amozoc, last night, was foiled by military guards. The bandits were not driven off, however, until after one passenger had been killed and four persons wounded. A fiving column from Puebla is in pursuit of the marauder: The first intimation of trouble was when the locomotive ran into a pile of rocks In the roadbed and was de- railed, together with four ca. In the subsequert fighting, which lasted a half hour, Eduardo Mauri, promi- nent Puebla business man, was killad and two brakemen, one soldler and another passenger wounded. The Tobbers’ casualties are unknown. CHINESE OPPOSE DREDGE. Water Improvement, Though Aid, Hits Sovereignty, Is Plea. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHAI, June 9.—The Chinese Taxpayers' has protested against deepening Soochow creek, the im- portant heavy traflo waterway that isects the International settlement, on the ground that the work con- stitutes {nfringement of China’s sov- ereignity. The protest came as a surprise to foreign ocircles in view of the fact foreigners that deepening the creek relieves in-|. tolerable congestion and benefits not only Chiness river craft operator: but‘LtI\Q agricultural hinterland a wel MUSSOLINI ASKS REFORM. Bill Seeks Women’s Votes in Cit- ies; Proportional Representation. Rome, June 9.—Premier Mussolini introduced his electoral reform. bill in the chamber of deputies today. ‘The president of the chamber will appoint a committee to examine and report on the bill within a fortnight. The measure provides for the exten- sion of the vote to women in munic- ipal elections, and its adoption will bring proportional representation. ——— 3 Miss Caroline Dorman of Lounisiana s claimed to .be the only woman ctively engaged in forestry in the United States. y Association of Shanghali |- moved |, ring. nine years of age. ©Ola Mom, Major, Trilby, Snyde: nt herds is “0ld Mom,” ponderous favorite with thousands of fanw of | achyderms with the 5th street and Florida avenue northeast Monday and Tuesday, June 18 and 19. the anchor of the twenty-one ¥, Junior, Frieda and the circus (o appear at Old Mom 1is sald to be seventy- aby, Charlie Ed, are the middle ring herd in the Sells-Floto performances, and their offering concludes with Irene Ledgett, “bravest woman in the world,” standing on Major's tusks, while that huge creature stalks impressively the length of the track on his hind legs. sem bedecked robe, is ome of the central figures in “A Night in Persi Fiddling as BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEY, Germany's Foremost Publiclst. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, June 9.—The latest Berlin note, which hesitatingly and com- plainingly offers at least fixed an- nuities and guarantees, sounds, after all the like a signal retreat. Yet it remains to be seen whether the note can be made the basis for fruitful negotiations, since it leaves two chief points unsettied. It prom- ises neither the abandonment of pas- sive resistance in the Ruhr nor per- mission for the creation of a demili- tarized autonomous state. The necessity of such concessio; admitted in nearly every quarter, but it is declared that the Cuno cabi- net, with its hands tied by unwise deelarations {n the past, cannot make such concessions now. Cuno and Ludendorfr. But the world's peace must not be disturbed _just because Cuno, like Ludendorff, desiring to avoid the co; sequences of his actions, would leave chaos behind to become a national hero. Ludendorff, poor fellow, could not bring himself to sign the capitu- lation which was made necessary by his own mistakes! If the German government and par- liament do not perceive that, without dishonoring their land, they must pre- pare to end the occupation of the Ruhr by direct understanding with France and by going back to the Ruhr status of January 11 last, and by separating the Rhineland from Pruss then the world can apply to them and to a peopls who at such a time as this are amusing themselves in the way the Germans are today the words of Hamlet to Polonius: “He's for a jog or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps.” Shows in Berlin. And what are the German people doing today, flve years after a most terrible defeat and five months after the occupation of the Ruhr? Let me give you a liat of some of the most popular successes at the theaters and the music hal “The Princess of Virtue” “The Faun,” “The Spring Fair: “The Cuno’s Family Costs Germany $5 Each Month By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 9.—If Dr. Carl Wirth were still chancellor, Ger- many would be saving about $5 & month, for Dr. Wirth is a bachelor. Chancellor Cuno, in addition to his own salary of 5,372,260 marks for June, will recelve an allowance of 881,760 marks for his wife and five children. The official . pay rolls of the reich vary monthly with the in- creased cost of living. Chancel- lor Cuno's $80 salary check, how- ever, compares very favorably with the remuneration paid this month to others in high positions. For instance, a rallway president will receive 2,879,000 marks, and an ambassador 3,718,000 marks. A postman gets 560,475 marks, a rallway conductor 627,450 marks, a_fireman 694.725, an engineer 771,975, & ministerial undersecre- tary 829,375. A charwoman will recelve 518,176 marks. According to the economic experts, anything below the last named amount is less than the minimum monthly requirement for the sustenance of a family of four. Each_federal employe s al- lowed 32,000 marks for his wife and ‘from 70,000 to 105,760 marks for each chiid. CARSON IS RELEASED. SAN SALVADOR. June 9.—Jesse C. Carson, who was arrested at Teguci- alpa, 'Honduras, at the time Mrs. &lara Phillips, the nammer murderess, s apprehended there, has been re- leased, according to Tegucigalpa ad- vices. It is explained that the Amer- ican authorities walved their claim to the extradition of Carson, who was arrested in conmnection with the escape of Mrs. Phillips from a Los Angeles jall MESSENGER ROBBED. CAMBRIDGE, M: June 9.—Fred 8. MacCausland, 2 messenger em- 'ployed by ~the Manufacturers’ N tional Bank, was held up and robbed 7100, by twoand silk trucks. D s S Tty " The. money. wras | Henry Liberia, alias George Bl highwaymen today. art of the pay roll of the C. A- gfl‘ln Compan. —_— English housewives are installing Harden Sees German People Can’t Pay Reparations, But Waste Mil-| lions on Girl Shows, Choice Wines and Expensive Vacations. fanfares since last January, | German Rhine | ! a Burns, Countr Foolish Virgin,” “The Lady With the ,Monocle,” “The Battle of the Sexes, The Blue “The Chaste Joseph,” and “The Sins of Berlin. | These and other things like them, | presented not only in the theaters, but in cinemas and cabarets, cannot | be described for decent ears. With possibly a single exception, these plecas are utterly worthless and de- pend for success solely upon elaborate decorations, collections of smutty |Jokes and the exhibition of naked or half-naked women. These “‘enjoymeants” cost 5,000 marks (normally $1,250) for the poor- est seats, up to ,000 and 60,000 marks for the best places. Wherever two or three shapely women can be seen quite naked, together with al- most naked chorus girls, ticket specu- lators easily get 100,000 marks for a seat. Business flourishes; the pro- ducers ride about in automobiles and buy themselves fine villas. Of course, you get the excuse daily | that these shows and the bars and | cabarets and dance halls are support- {ed solely by visiting forelgners with their undepreciated currency. That is a lie, dictated by a false patriotiem iwhich excuses every crime. Since prices in Germany ascended above | the peaks of the Rocky mountains the tide of the forelgn Invasion has ebbed, and those few whose business brings them here turn away disgusted from | these spectacles. Why Mark Declines. | Germans toda are paying 500 | marks for street car fares, 100 marks for an egg, 600 for & pound of tea, 1,800,000 for a suit of clothes and the most fantastic prices for wines. | liquors, Havana cigars and Californ'a frults. ' At Whitsuntide they made ex- {cursions in such numbers that all | railway records were broken. Sum- mer resorts everywhere are so full | that many persons are giad to sieep |on a billiard table or in a bathtub. | All of this at enormous prices. all in Germany, And whose national and state officers struggle with deflc in |trillions—a natfon that demands | world sympathy and is indignant be- | cause the world does not believe Its assertions that it cannot pay any debt whatever. The reason the mark declines Is easy to discover when 350,000,000,000 inew paper marks are printed daily {In the circumstances it is a wonder | that the mark has any value what~ {ever. |PHONE RUSE BRINGS fl BACK $8,000 LOOT New York Detective Tmpersonates Another Person and Lays Trap for Recovery of Jewelry. He is the only elephant in the world doing this remarkable feat, it is stated. Old Mom, haughty in a the big top opening spectacle. TURKEY ADAMANT ON DEBT QUESTION Lausanne Near Wreck as Ottoman Delegates Insist They Will Never Sign. By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, June 9~The Swiss government invited the entire near east peace conference delegations and correspondents today on an excur- sion to Lake Leman. Every one seemed happy, but nobody found a formula to save the conference from shipwreck on the jagged rock of the Ottoman debt. Ismet Pasha, heto of the excursion, informed the Assoclated Press cor- respondent: “It is a charming ex- cursion, but I hope the American people will understand that we can never sign a peace which means the financlal strangulation of Turkey. We @inply cannot pay our debt in forelgl ouPrencies, co why should the ailles ‘ask me to sign Turkey's death warrant?’ Fears New Clashex. M. Venizelos. head of the Greek delegation, told a tale scarcely less important” “Tf this conference is adjourned, as it may have to cauge of failure to augree over the Turkigh debt problem,” he said. “T shall asic the conference to authoriz the signature of peace preliminari between Turkey and Greece before we separate. That is only just Practfcally evervthing is arranged between -Turkey and Greece and ad- journment of the conference would only create a rick of new olaches botween the Hellenio and Ottoman armies. “Mind you. I do not say a separate peace but peace prellminarie. guar- anteeing peace at some future date g Allles See No Light. The allied leaders said their posi- tlons were diametrically opposed to the _position of the Turks, and ad- mitted they saw no light. Somebody must retreat from the advanced iine. and the next few . will disclose who is to be conelliatory, if the conference Is to he saved. In the meantime Joseph C. Grew. the American representative, continues active in his mediation efforts. Before embarking on the excursion ha brought Representative Stephen G. Porter to see Ismet Pasha at a Lausanne hotel. lIsmet informed the correspondent later: “We had a fine chat. which convinces me that the United States has the most friendly sentiments toward my country.” Moratorium Likely. The solution of the really grave situation may be found in the appli- cation of some kind of moratorium to Turkey: indeed, Ismet Pasha gavo the impression tonight that it the moratorium were for a suficiently long period Turkey might accept this in_the way of a gettlement. Porter explained tonight that the malin ohject of his visit to Ismet Pasha was to induce Turkey to ad- hera to The Hague opium convention. Te expressed confldence, after talking with the Turkish leader, that Turkey will come in If peace is signed at Lausanne and Turkey gets started on By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—The peculiar inflection of a speaker’s voice today led a detective to do some imperson- ating over a telephone with the re- sult that four men were arrested, two d@ccused of participating in the day- light robbery Wednesday of an upper Broadway jewelry store and the other two charged with being fugitives from New Jersey. Detectives Dowling, Hammill and Kiernan, all of the truck squad, had gone to a 7th avenue loft building to investigate another case. As they entered an empty office the telephone bell rang. Dowling answered the call. “Is Jake there?” said a voice, and Dowling became suspicious. out. This is Harry,” said the other. Harry sald he had “something good. Admitted it was jewelry, and agreed to bring it to the office. Harry ar- rived, accompanied by three others. The detectives lined them up and found $8,000 worth of jewelry wrapped in a silk handkerchief. .This they identified as part of. the $70,000 loot from the store of Barnett Goldstein, 2587 Broadway, which four bandits robbed Wednesday, binding and gag- ging Louis Goldstein, son of the pro- prietor, and a clerk, and calmly going about their thievery. One of the men, who gave his name as George Oppenheim of Chicaso, was identified by Goldstein at headquar- ters later as the “decoy” who en- tered the jewelry store as a purchaser in advance of the robbers, and Jame: Chiarrelll of New York, who, the po- lice sald, has been out of Sing Sing only four months, was picked as one of the other robbers. Both the others wers sald by police to be sought in Hudson county, N. J., on charges of robbing tobacco They were listed as 1 l and Willlam Schneider, known as “Snip- per,” both of New York. _— Miss FElda Soll Scandinavian the road to reconstruction. Turkish adherence would isave only Switzerland and Persia outslde this convention. THOMAS PAINE LAUDED. Tablet Is Unveiled to Patriot of Revolutionary War. EW YORK. June 9.—Representa- tives of foreign governments and historical and patriotic socleties at- tended the unveiling of a bronze tablet today to the memory of Thomas Paine, revolutionary war patroit, at the house in Greenwich Village where he once lived. Paine was lauded as “the greatest man of his age” and “the revolutionary poet whose ut- terances inspired our country to Among those who eulogized Paine were H. Glosler Armstrong, consul general of Great Britain, and Charles Barrett, French consul general. Speakers declared that Paine was “greatly misjudged. Joseph French Johnson, dean of New York Univer- sity, sald that “the {ndlctment of Thomas Paine is that he was too honest & man to be a safa citizen.” MEXICAN BANDITS HOLD KIDNAPED AMERICAN John B. Neumann Seen With Armed Band, According to Reports to Consul. MEXICO CITY, June 9.—John B. Neumann, the American who was kid- naped early last month at Charcoazul, state of Durango, was recently seen in the company of an armed band In that vicinity, according to reports re- celved today from the American con- sul here, - LUTHERANS SELECT DETROIT. CEDAR FALLS, Jowa, June 9.— Detroit, Mich., was given the 1924 convention of Danish Lutheran phonographs in thelr kitchens as a music conductor, is safd to be the|Church of the United States on the means for keeping cooks fn their em- ploy. leader of a 100-plece. PN R only and. woman vote of delegates today four votes uver Marquel winning by Neb. Reliable Burgiar Employed to Test T hief-Proof Safe By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 3.—“I want a re- llable lurglar who happens to bs out of jail” read a recent appli- cation to the Berlin police from a jewecler, proprietor of & big new establishment on Potsdamer Platz. Inquiry showed that the dealer in precious stones wanted an ex- pert cracksman to test the safety appliances and locks of his new establishment. While the detec- tives were unable to guarantee the “reliability” of any of their a quaintances among cracksmen at liberty, they were able to supply & man whose skill in his irregular calling was above question, Within one hour the ex-burglar was able to displace one of the fron bars which safe-makers had guaranteed to be thief-proof, and in a short time made his way into the shop. He offered so many sug- gostions about safety devices and alarms that the jeweler has em- ployed him regularly to inspect the construction work—under the sapervision of the proprietor. BELIEVES AMERICA MUST SAVE EUROPE No Other Road Open, Say Senator Wheeler, Back From Tour. ‘The United States must lend a helping hand to settls the problems of Europe, is the opinfon of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, democrat, who has recently returned to the United States after traveling in many of the European countries, including France, Germany, Russia, Austria and practically all of the new countries which were created by the treaty of Versailles. “I was convince sald Senator Wheeler yesterday, ‘befors Germany ever delivered her last note to France that France would turn down the Ger- man propoeition cold. 1 do not think that France wants reparations, but that she wants the Ruhr valley and wants to completely crush Germany. If France is permitted, it means that Ger- many will be driven into the arms of soviet Russia, and in my opinion the communists will control Germany. The only power in the world that can_settle the European questions is the United States government, Whether we want to or mot, we are going to be forced to take a hand in the situation over there. I do not think those questions can pos- sibly settle their differences among themselves. Should Not Stand By. “America won the war and disarmed Germany. America should not stand by now and see central Europe crushed and driven into the hands of the com- munists merely to satisfy the desires of one of our allfes during the war.” The framers of the Versallles treaty perpetrated a joke on Europe when it provided for the large num- be, be-| ber of new countries and their bound. arles, Senator Wheeler said ‘It requires a sense of humor to ravel In Europs today,” he sald, Every time you oross a frontier, and you cross them very often, you are required to have.your baggage examined and your passports exam- ined—usually twice. Must Lift Restrictions. “One of two things is needed for the rehabilitation of Europe. The first, which ix not possible, fs & United States of Europe. The second, which fs possible, is a lifting of the present restrictions by the many countries, which prevent freo inter. course and_trade among them.” Senator Wheeler repeated an as- sertion made by him soon after he reached this country, to the effect that the United States should with- out delay recognize the soviet gov- ernment of Russia. “I do mot belleve in communism,” sald Senator Wheeler, “nor do I believe in the dictation of the proletariat as they have It In Russia. “I do_ not belicve any workingman in the United States would want to B0 and live in Russia 1 do think, how- ever, the present government is going to last for u long time and that the United _States government should recognize Russla, not with & view of putting our stamp of approval on its form of government, but becausa as Christian nation we ows it to the 150,000,000 to 160,000,000 Russians to ielp them and the coming genera. tions to reach as high a standard of living a3 we have here in this coun- try. “In many ways the peopls In Rus- sta do not have as much freedom of specch and action as we havs In this country. For example, practically all the telegrams and letters going out of and coming into Russia are cen- Sored. Citizens of Russia are re- quired to have passports and fo be registered. They are mot permittod to go from one city to another with- out obtaining permission. They are subect to arrest otherwise. This fs largely due to the fact that they have had so many revolutions and counter- revolutions that the people are ver suspicious. COLLEGE HEAD ASKS U. S. ENTER COURT Says Isolation Is Enemy to Unity; Harding's Plan Step Toward Peace, He Declares. clated Press. NECTADY, Union of the United States with other nations of the world by means of the world court proposed by Presi- dent Harding was advocated today bs Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College, in an ad- dress today in connection with the th commencement, ‘Intolerance and isolation are the two great enemies of unity—tolera- tion and reciprocity must replace them.” Dr. Richmond declared. “The world court proposed by President Harding is a start toward uniting the natlons of the world.” Dr. Richmond said he belleved the United States had receded from the high plan of reciprocity proposed by President McKinley twenty-two years ago. ‘ 21 CREEDS COMBINED UNDER A SINGLE PASTOR NEW YORK, June 9.—Formal dedi- cation tomorrow of the Community Church, Jackson Heights, Queens, will mark the unification of com municants of twenty-one denomina. tlons under one pastor. Services will be -a composite of those creeds and Bishop Luther B. Wilson of the Metho- dist Epishcopal Church will officate. Jts membership Includes Pre terians, Baptists, Methodists, Uni- tarlans, Universalists, Congregation- alists, Diaciples, Episcopallans and others. Rev. Fred P. Corson will be pastor. $50,000 VILLA BURNS. BELFAST, Me.. June 9.—Colonfal Villa, owned by W. R. Carver, of Co coanut Grove, Fla, and one of th show places of the Maine coast, wi destroved by fire toda: | cetimated ag gou,000. g | short Brussels conference for Fran POINGARE REFUSES STAND ON POLITIC Fails to Support Major- ity Party of Deputies Tardieu Claims. SAYS HE REJECTED PLACE IN CABINET Premier’s Policy Leaves Nation Al- ways in Doubt, Writer Claims. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. Former French High Commissioner to America. By Oable to The Star and Chicage Oopyright, 1923. PARIS, June 9.—The receipt of the new German reparations not finds France in a turmoil of domestic poli- tics and it 13 not safe at this time to prophesy what may or may not hap- pen. This has been & week when ones attention ordinarily would be rivetes on forelgn affairs. Thers was the Daily News Belgian co-operation, the receipt of the German nots and continuing shocks from Lausanne, where French economy s having a bad time due i the Turks’' demand that they bs per- mitted henceforth $o pay their debts in paper money rather than in golc Despite all this, domestic politics has held the attention of the cham ber and the public. I do not ofter cable domestio politics, first, becaus- that subject Interests you less than France’s international actions, and secondly, because I dislike to thrust French discords upon you. However ons must not exaggerats one's dis creton. _And it must be admitte that in France as well as in America domestic party struggles have the direct repercussions in foreign pol tics and policies. Americans make no contradiction to the statement that traditional quarrels betwee democrats and republicans influence the fate of the treaty of Versailles, Barred Disapproval. Thus, in the coming French el tions of 1924, if the Caillaux par benefiting by socialist and com munist votes, obtains a majority i: parliament, the domestic change wiil have immediate results interna tionally. The small crisis just ex- perienced originated with royal *“Action Francaise” aggressions on the extreme radical politictans. One of these on his way to the chamber was beaten with a stick, another was showered with ink, while a third was given fascist treatment—a large dose of castor oil. These methods. cesstul in Italy, provoked in Frar unanimous disapproval, which waz echoed next day in the chamber. This outburst of the rovalists, while interesting, was not the disturbing political factor of the week. Real uneasiness persists because of un certainty as to Premler Pc views—an uneasines planation because the co may provoke reactions explicable unless the causes under- neath are outlined. Poincare, it must be remembered was the republic's president. Ou presidents are different from vours They are not held responsible for anything, and their power is limited to the nominating of a premier in case of a ministerial crisis. With us a president is a sort of party bitrator. With your a president s party leader. Poincare, upon becoming premier was unwiliing or unable to abandon the arbitral idea he gained as pres: dent and declared that he did not in itend to meddic in party struggles In January, 1922, when he asked me to join his’cabinet, I asked: “With what majority do you intend to_govern?” Poincare replied: “I did not make politics whils was at the Elysee; I shall not make them as premier.” Indefinite Attitude, My conviotion that a premier ough: to govern with a definite party ma- jority back of him led me to refuse to foin the Poincare ministry. I gim still convinced today that the pre- mier's indefinite political attitude is largely responsible for the uneasiness throughout the country. Instead of relying exclusively upon { the moderate republicans who con- | stitute the chamber majority, Poin- care constantly s flirting with the radicals, the socialist laux {party ‘and ‘even the rov, This policy has led Poincare into mans difficult situations. He is tryving to walk between the extrems left anc the extrems right. Meantime the rea: majority in the chamber is without leadership. It s losing all prestigs simply because it will not assert self. The right and the left haye gained the ground thus abandoned. No one seems to know whera s are drifting. As T sald at the begir ning I shall not attempt to prophes —— " CTINL 10 Prophesy. | : Electric Washing | Machine BARGAINS! Several machines used as demonstrators to be closed out at less than cost. These Washing Ma- chines are practically new and fully guaranteed for one year. Come in and get a good Washing Machine at a W EBSTER | Electric Co. 1719 9th St. N.W. Phone Main 5150 Next to Rialto Theater