Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1923, Page 1

onight and Friday; moderate temperature. | Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m_today: Highest, 93, at | % p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 6 a.m. | today Fuil report on page 22 | Bonds, Page 16 @ Closing N. Y. stnks and Entered as second-clase matier post office Washington, D C. o. 28,954 MULTITUDES PAY WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923—TWEfiTY-TWO PAGES.b TRIBUTE TO HARDING AS HIS BODY IS BORNE TO MARION HOME e 2 Hours Late ISTRCTSHEART Passing Thousands E | Along Route. | [0 BE AT MARION BURIAL TOMORROW HALTS AT CANTON HOME OF M’KIN Federal, Civic and Business Activities to Stop for Trib- ute in Churches. Hosts in Pittsburgh Show | Grief When Special Pulls Through. Warren Harding Is gone So Washington mourns today, sin- cerely, deeply and quietly. Wherever the eye turns in the sections of the city where the wheels of government turn the eigns of reverence are evi- dent From flagstaffs throughout the city | that most impressive tribute of mourning is displayed—the national emblem drooping half-way from the peak. Government workers are im- pressed with the knowledge that a friend is gone forever. By the Assaciated Press. MARION, Ohio, August Traveling slowly through lines of home folks, the funeral train carrying President Hard- ing’s body arrived in Marion at 12:38 p.m., two hours and thirty- eight minutes late. MARION, Ohio, August 9.— The funeral train bearing home the body of the late President Harding crossed the Marion county line at 12:13 pm. This was two miles from Blooming Grove, the little Morrow county village, near where he was born. As the train reached Marion | county the courthouse bell began tolling. The progress through Marion county due to the large crowds which lined the right of way. Many of them were boyhood neighbors of the late Presid At Martel, the first town in Marion county, |, Washington will be where Mr. Harding visited in | Virtually all Washington churches youth, a large crowd had assem- [ Sk TR0l Mg nd contina: bled. At Caledonia, where Mr. | tng !'mui {nm in the ning in & . . hurches of all denominations mo- Harding played his famous “slip Anered: T teibit horn™ in the band, another Ti will be conducted in tribute to crowd had assembled. (i long Stores Open Today, However. Stores and business houses are open | today. When the funeral takes place | tomorrow in Marion, Ohio, their | doors again will be closed, Washington is remembering today those brilliant occasions when the President participated in local affairs, It is remembering the occasion of the seréenade of tha President and Mrs, | Harding two r8 ago, and the school hildren who wang are telling the | story to those not lucky enough to | have been on the Ellipse on that day. {The citv is remembering the man who made Washington his home in {deed as well as in name for the time Iwhen he reslded here as Chief Execu- tive of the nation and as a senator of the United States. oi the train as slow, ent in Marion in| arge dent. In the presence of those desir- the memory of the departed Pr ous of paying a last tribute to the | will make up the small party Thousands Pouring Into Little City for Final Rites. FRIENDS TO VIEW DEAD CHIEF TODAY {Services at Cemetery To- morrow to Be Simple and Private. By the Assoclated Press. MARION, Ohio, August 8.—His home town of Marfon awoke today, eagerly | the funeral | awalting the arrival of train beasing back to Ohlo for eternal rest the body of Warren G. Harding. The train, with the body of the dead , President, due to arrive here at 10 a.m., central standard time, preparatory to the final funeral services tomorrow that will be In direct contrast to the official services held yesterday in the Capitol at Washington, was two hours late. The elaborate services were for Warren G. Harding, President of the United States: the simple serv- ices here tomorrow will be for Warren G. Harding, citizen, friend, neighbor— and husband. Rites to Be Brief. For two days, his friend bors will accord the late Pres customary funeral rites of the small towns of the middle west, and then yesterday i id neigh- | fdent the | with strict stmplicity, will accompany | Mrs. Harding and the body to the cem- | etery, where it will be morrow afternoon The only fun at the ceme extremely brief cordance” with Hard!ng. Only relatives and intlmate friends Eoing Even newspaper me entombed to- ral services her ry, and they will b nd simple, in the wishes of Mr to the cemetery will | will be excluded from the services at | the tomb. Coffin to Go to Father's Home, ‘WORLD PAYS RESPECTS WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening - WiLLiam SEEMS TOBE GETTYING, FUNNIER(T | ! TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Diplomats Make Formal Call for First Time Outside of White House. National Leaders Visit Chief. The the P used to Execut plomwats shook hands with fdent and many of them €ay u few words to the Gen. Gouraud of the designated by the ! President of France especially to at- tend the funeral of President Hard- called with the diplomats. he F strect entrance of the hotel ast in recent years, at the White @nd the corridor had been cleared to | at least in recent years, at the White, o it” the officlal reception of the House. Today ption of the dij diplomats, which passed without in- | mats therefore creates a precedent cident i The President received the diplomats Takes Brisk Walk. received the of the na- lled at the President Coolidge todas diplomatic rep: fves tions of the world, who New Willard to pay their respects to the new President of the United The formal call of the diplomats upon President has invariably been made, ssenta ates I a t The Star'’s every city block and the regular edi- [ | —_— “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ticn is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the vapers are printed. Star, ; Yesterday’s Net Ciqufion, 88,909 TWO CENTS. ANTHRAGITE STRIKE HELD SURE UNLESS| U.S. TAKES ACTION lOperators and Miners Cannot End Fight Alone, 0b- servers Agree. | COMMISSION IS URGED TO CALL NEW SESSION | Labor Department Men Sent! Among Workers to Prevent Walkout Next Month. | As the date of expiration of the| |anthracite miners’ agreement draws | |near it s becoming apparent to gov- | fernment officials that some agency outside the mine union and the op- erators must attempt to conciliate | the differences which may lead to a | strike after August 31. | As the situation now stands, with | both sides standing firm, the nation s faced with a strike in the anthra- cite flelds of Pennsylvania. Although anthracite production has reached higher levels since the beginning of | the coal year, April 1, than at any | time since the war, 2 cessation of | work would mean hardship again | during the coming winter for thou- sands. ' —eeee KEPNER'S SECRET NOTE SENSATION Miss Ricketts, on Stand,| Reads of Lover’s Suspicion in Murder Case. Fear of Strike. The ground impression is daily gaining | as September 1 approaches | that the government must step In | where the Atlantle City conference | left off three weeks ago, and call a| round-table meeting of miners and | operators in an effort to the ! strike which all agree is inevitable! unless something ione. The United | States Coal Commission is considered | to be the logical agency to call such | a meeting, or at least to use its per- | suasive power to call the two sides together. Although the commission | has no legal power to enforce a e ng. it is the sole government agency t present dealing with coal, outside of state concillation boards. In the; meantime tl Labor Department has men in the anth ite flelds watching the’ situation clos and working {among the miners in a last-minute | effort to prevent a strike. | eccretary of Labor Davis in New York next avert By u Stafr spond; FREDERICK, secret note . Evard Ke to pretty waltress sweetheart, | Miss Lulu Ricketts, eral weeks | after his wife had been found shot! to death, in which he warned her that he was under suspicion and told her how to the questions of de tectives they visited her, was Md.. s answer when when > arrives COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 9.—Al-} two hours behind schedule, the bearing the body of President| Harding slowly moving across Ohio to Marion. As when the cortege through the state traveling toward Washington two days ago, large crowds gathered all| niost train ] passed eastward | memory | American Legion, has charge of the £ President Harding will be buglera to sound taps at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. when the body will be lowered into an Ohio grave. Where Taps Will Sound William F. Franklin, mander of Vincent B. past com- Costello Post, plan to have this last mark of re- When the funeral train arrives hers the coffin will be taken immediately to the home of the dead President’s father, Dr. George T. Harding, in| East Center street. Thé trip from the station to the father's home will be made in & hearse, not on a military caisson, as yesterday in Washington. | At his father's home the body will lie in private until this afternoon. From then until 10 o'clock tonight the in the erystal room the first floor of the hotel. He was accompanied by J. Butler Wright, the third assistant of ‘State,” and Col. Sherriil, al The diplomats sembled at 11 clock in a roon the hotel dor from the room, and at te appointed hour, head- ed by the dean of the corps, the Spanish on e. as across cor ery President Coolidge was up early this morning. in fact at 6:45 o'cloc notwithstanding the arduous day he | had spent yesterd: He took a| brisk walk for a mi up to Thomas circle and back to the hotel, accom- panied by the secret service men. The rush of visitors hegan soon after the President had had his breakfast and | {mons Kepner. w {sprung with staggering suddenness | {by the state this morning when the!Acting Secretary Henning. trial for the Mrs. Grace Sim- s resumed in the county circuit court. The note, which w wealthy architect's murder of hls wif, s In answer to {@ frantic appeal fromn Miss Ricketts major industry. as to why _she was under the Monday. will be th gravity of t! immediately apprised of : amhracite situation by | Mr. Davis Tespects tely he is to go to Marlon to pay h to Mrs. Harding, but immed: | returns’ to Washington he is expected jto begin efforts to get miners and { operators together, The Labor Secretar {is empowered by law to take.the nec { essary steps to prevent a strike in any | French, who have been spect paid in this city. He obtained the ‘services of experienced Army and Navy buglers. Names of the buglers t six of the places and the locations were announced as follows: | District building, Harry Smith; ! Capitol steps, Henry Loveless: Lincoln | Park, Edward Kerweise; Columbia road and 16th street, Thomas Murray; Mount Alto Hospital, Cornelius Murphy, and 1st and T streets, Louls Gree Service men along the route and stood reverently with bowed heads the nation’s | chicf traveled homeward for the last time, The train slipped line from Pennsylvania ear! in the morning, arriving at East Palestine, | ne the border, at 7:15, eastern ) standard time. Salem, the next size- able town, was reached at 7:57 a.m., and Alli 8:24, | Thousands of persons waiting to pay homage were reported gathered at; other pointy where the train was to as the Ohio across will sound taps at Washington barracks, Marine bar-| s, navy yard, Naval Hospital and Walter Reed Hospital. d, where the train was to Cars to Stop at 4. ansferred to the Erie railroad mplete the journey to Marion, cached at 11:40, eastern stand- he train departed for standard All traction service in Washington will be suspended for a perlod of five minute beginning at 4 o'clock, to- morrow afternoon. During this in- terval the trainmen will stand silently | with bowed heads and their hats re- moved. Orders to the traction company em- | ployes to observe the silent periodi were issued today by the Washington Railway _and Electric Company. the Capital Traction Company, the Wash- | ington-Virginia Electric railway and the Washington Rapld Transit Com- | pany. Virtually every telegraph, cable! and telephone line in the world that | is owned or controlled by American interests will be silenced from two to three minutes tomorrow after. noon. Marion at time. 1 STOPS AT CANTON. i Funeral Cortege Shows Mark of Respect for McKinley. By the Assaciated Press. ON BOARD HARDING FUNE TRAIN, CANTON, Ohio, August The funeral train bearing the body of | the late President Harding to Marion was stopped for one minute at Canton today as a mark of respect to William McKinley, called the political mentor of Mr. Harding. Later another stop of one minute was planned at Caledonia, where the late Chief Executive spent his boy- hood da The train arrived in Can- ton at 9:25 a.m., nearly two hours be- hind schedule. « sses Border at 7:15. EAST PAL STINE, Ohio, August 9. —The Harding funeral train on to Marion, Ohio, crossed the ania bord into the dead state here at 7:15 am. to- often Suspends Phone Service. The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company announced today that during the period from 4 to 4:02 o'clock tomorrow no calls will be handled and the operators will sit at attention at their posts, as a final tribute to the departed execu- tive. If telephone calls made be- fore 4 o'clock have not been com- pleted when the time for the silent ! homage arrives, however, the con- nection will not be pulled down, it g was stated. The ,train was traveling slowly,| The Postal Telegraph and Cable announced that all_offices. making a speed of probably fifteen or | Company stem_“from Paris, France, twenty miles an hour. The tracksiof the s were lined with peeple, and workmen | to Shanghaf, China,” have been noti- in factories bordering the railroadjfled that the telegraph lines and stood silently at the windows as the | cables are to be silenced for two funeral train passed. minutes, from 4 to 4:02 p.m. The Western Union Company also TRAIN IN PITTSBURGH. will cease operation of its !Ple}RrflPh lines and cables for a period of three minutes, from 4 to 4:03 p.m. One Delivery Mail. There will be one delivery of mail by carriers here tomorrow, with a special suspension of postal activities during the hour of the interment. its da 100,000 See Train Slowly Pass Through City. Br the Associated Press. ON BOARD HARDING FUNERAL TRAIN, PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 5t 1 Pos . 9—The dawn of another sad day In | will be open tran §CLENgRE the city the life of tho nation was breaking imorrow, © with * registry " facilitles when the funeral train of President){viiiable ai e main city post office uilding f : Harding passed through Pittsburgh. R s 3 to 8 pm. The dawn was of the day which | Today one delivery less than usual 2 ERE 2 g ng made by carriers, carriers would see all that is mortal of War- )\ Choordinarily make. three delfverins ren G. Harding taken home to be |making but two, and those usually cith® “friend: d neighb making two but one. The clerical e s force at the post ofice wan excused Despite the early hour—about 6.30 [ £09ay at 2: .m., to report again am.—there was an almost continu- | Saturday mornfag. ous tribute paid the memory of Mr. —_— Harding by the people of the Pitts- burgh district. The silent throngs WILL ENFORCE LAW. were not so _great as on Tuesday when | tho faneral traln 1assed|British Plan Regime of Utmost Rigor in Hongkong. ington, but the tribute was just as reverent and expressive of the na- tion's sorrow. Train an Hour Late. The train was almost an hour late into Pittsburgh. ‘The crowd at the station was not Jarge, although it filled the open By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, August 9.—Suppres- sion of crime by the enforcement of law with the utmost rigor is planned by the British government here. Early spaces outside the gates and over- |jegislation is expected to f flowed Into tho adjacent streets. But | drastically the penalties for tha tcame to vublic will be permitted to gaze upon <he kindly face of the former Marion newspaper publisher who be Chief Executive of his country. Last View Tomorrow. Again_tomorrow, from 9 am. until 1 p.m., the public will have a last op. portunity to pass by the bler of Mr. Harding. At o'clock the funeral { procession will form for the journey to the cemetery, and at 3 o'clock the body of Warren G. Harding will be laid at rest. It will be placed in a receiving vault a suitable until | mausoleum can be erected Only members of the intimate party that made the trip to Alaska with President Harding are aboard the funeral _train. _Cabinet Members Hoover, Work and Daugherty are in- cluded in the party. President Coolidge, members of the cabinet and other high government officials who as private citizens will attend the funeral services here will arrive tomorrow at 11 a.m. on another special train. It was Mrs. Harding wish, and her wish is law homse town. No Ceremony Tomorrow. In today's funeral processlon from |¢on Heights court was thrown into |an uproar today when Norman Rob- the station to the Harding home, and in the last journey tomorrow, from the home to the cemetery, there Will | moned to court on not be heard the tramping fect of soldiers; no civic or other organiza- tions will' be in line. Only the family and intimate friends will directly fol- low the hearse. in her | ame | | | | | i | | Mrs., Harding's desire for a simple | private funeral for her husband re- sulted today in the cance plans for Ohio newspal —members of the Assoclated Ohio Dallies, in which Mr. Harding was an active worker—to march in the procession as a body. Although there will be no military escort efther today or tomorrow, 3.000 Ohfo National Guard troops today patrolled the streets of Marion, keep- ing back the huge crowds of Ohfoans and people from other states pay their last respects to their dead chief. Crowded to Overflowing. Marion was crowded to overflowing this morning and other thousands were blackening the high- ways leading Into the city. So great was the crush that state authorities stationed patrols along the —main roads to prevent speeding and con- seéquent Injuries or loss of life. It was estimated that more than 100,000 people will be here before nightfall. Hundreds of Marion residents today | opened their homes to care for the many visitors who could .not find hotel quarters. Many motorists came prepared with tents and camping outfits. Business will practically be at a standstill_in Marlon today and to- morrow. The whole city plans to give itself up to deep mourning. On some streets near the Harding home, the cemetery and the old home made fa- mous by the front porch campaign the only activities of a usual nature will be the deliveries of milk and ice. Star to Suspend for Day. The Marion Star, the newspaper that until recently was owned and published by President Harding, will suspend publication tomorrow in or- der that its employes may attend the funeral services and pay their last respects to their “chief. All points of Interest in connection with the life here of Mr. Harding were being heavily guarded by state troops to safeguard them from the ravages of souvenir hunters. An pecially heavy guard was placed around the old Harding home, from which Mr. Harding, then a United States senator, conducted his famous front porch campalgn for the presi- dency, and where after election he met and conferred with the “great minds” of the country. Homes Show Sorrow. Everywhere throughout the city flags were flylng at half-mast, and who | countless | llation of | husband to court on a charge of as- er publishers | g,y When she started toward the \ | L | kept up continuously morning hour: Gov. Giffor Ambassador, flied through the | tion reom. The presentations made by Col. Sherrill across to the recep- were Pinchot -1 on Page of Penns: o - | {the very cemetery in which his wife LLS WIF, S SHOT THINKS D. . SAFE HIMSELF BY POLICE. FROMDEVIL'S GRIP Colored Prisoner Puts Court:Dr. Fowler Says Stra.mge in Uproar Until Bullet Malady Unlikely to Cross Ends His Life. Virginia Border. ! | { | By the Associated P H NEW YORK, August 9-—Washing- An outbreak in Washington of the “Devil's grip” is not feared by Dis: trict Health Officer Willlam C. Fow- ler, who returned today from Rich- mond. Va., where he went Tuesday to consult with the leading medical au- |thorities of Virginia regarding the strange disease which is epidemic in that state. | Although the plague is creeping 'near the District—one case being re- | ported at Ballston, Va., less than ten | miles away—Dr. Fowler does not be- courtroom door Roberts whipped the |jjove it will be communicated into pistol from his coat pocket and fired | the city. The health officer, however, five times. rA!l‘é;hms took lfllf]fl‘vh - |is equipped to combat the disease. A score of policemen rushed to the | i corridor. Roberts fled toward the| Th e Hundred Cases fn Virgiata. stairs and when ordered to halt| More than 300 cases already have turned and fired at the pursuing pa- | Deen Teported in Virginia, the ma- trolman, The police returned the J0Tity of them in the region sur- fire, and Roberts fell with a bullet |Founding Fredericksburg, located in the head and another in the ab- | bdut sixty miles south of Washing- domen: |ton. There are fourtebn cases in Meanwhile nearly 200 _ persons | Richmond at present. grouped in the corridors had sought | Alarmed over the strange disease, laces of safety. Some fled the build- 8 b Pi%- Otliora dadesd ihenann ‘oors ur!p"“"““"“ Virginia physicians and dropped to the floor. Two women |health authorities met In the academy fainted and a dozen were treated for | 0f medicine in the state capital to hysteria. determine the case and a method to |battle it It was this contorence that | Dr. Fowler attended, at the urgent WRITER TO MARRY. ‘aeuusst ort the Virginla state health e = | department. LOS ANGELES, Cal, August 9—| jtfter a thorough discussion of the Kenneth C. Beaton, author, who plague, Dr. Fowler said, the Virginia writes under his Initlals, “K. C. B, {doctors and health ofclals e 4 much baffled as to its origin and how and Mrs. Florence Wood Clark, it j5 communicated as they were be- prominent in Los Angeles Society, |fore. One peculiar feature of the are engaged to be married, the Los | disease, Dr. Fowler said, Is that it Angeles “Times sail today. - Mr,|strikes the rural sections with more A oS s a widower. |Mrs. Clark |severity than the thickly populated obtained a divorce in 1920 from Joy |Clties and Yowns. Otark o ‘Los Angeles. She Is the| The conference of the medical au- mother of two children. | —Continuea on Tage 2, Column & T who had been sum- complaint of his! wife, shot her dead in a corridor, fired on a patrolman who attempted to capture him and was himself shot dead by the policeman. Mrs. Roberts had summoned erts. a negro: her TR T g ! IR IR U Pictures of the Harding Funeral In the Graphic Section of Next Sunday’s Star A page of dignity and beauty which Americans distant from the Capital will be glad to receive; one which all citizens will deem worthy to be cherished and preserved. * The Sundmy Stae —will be mailed to points in Maryland and Virginia for § » President Coolidge has been officially | surveillance of detectives, was offered | % for Emergency. after the state had drawn from the girl on the witness stand reluctant| ' > z admission that she had kept a tryst | aPPrised of the seriousness of the an- with Mr. Kepner beneath the wall of | thracite situation by Chairman John had been buried only a few days be. | .2y® Hammond of the United States fore. In vain the defense asked that | Coal Commission and by Samuel Gom-| the documents be excluded, and the | pers, president of the American Federa- ourt obliged Miss Ricketts to read |tion of Labor. But the feeling at pres he missives herself. g o= i ‘;:“'h:':’;“_d. vl ent is that the President should remain e in the background while the negot! In subdued tone, she first iden®ificd | fions are stil in the negotiable Stage, her note to Mr. Kepner and read it, a3 1 and not until the parties are hopelessly follows: “What is all this going on?{deadlocked should he step in. In the iive me all detalls. I dor't know | meantime the President has before him what to do. I heard ail this a.m., about | 5 plan prepared by experts of the In- detectives watching me and are go-|terior Department for operating the ing to get me. Send me word by this | terior Department for operating the party.” That note was carried to the |~ jonn 1. Lewis, president of t architect in his office on July 4, by [tUnited Mine Workers, was in Wash- Charles A. Wickless, who works in|ington yesterday. He rode in the fu- the same restaurant with her. Miss|neral procession with Mr. Gompers, Ricketts gulped several times and|put dia not see the President. He left stopped, as though she was bout o | fha eity last night D o Mids: Ris .| The Atlantic City conference, which | stase, O, Dlease, Miss Ricketts." | was expected to draw up a new wage Prompted her, quistly. For those £ Slagreement in the anthracite flelds, prOMDY = 4 O TeW | split on the question of elimination of seconds the dead silence that gripped | {ha “oheck-off~ system for collectine. the courtroom was so tense that it{ynjon dues. The operators claim they could be felt. Pulling herself to-|ghould not have to shoulder the bur. gether, the witness said & < . |den of collecting dues of members of Mr. Kepner wrote his answer on(iye ‘union. while the union claims the back of my own note. This is \ vl 8 . e v i such collection is the only feasible what ‘ho sald: “They are trying to| Ml S0 G {4 money. “ W hen D 1o bra o o & .£9me this controversial point was inter- things 1 had to own up to about ¥0U | jucteq a demand by the miners for an and 1 as they had the proof that I|jncrease in the wages of duy laborers, had been out with you and that I{githough it was belleved this point gave you a few presents, as hose.icould have been gotten around had underwear and wrist watch. If you | fha question of the eheck off” mot are questioned do not deny this, as | fon WECON 000 it had better be as It s, I have'two | attorneys keeping me straight. You know, too, that nothing immoral OFPOSE COAL UNIONE has cver been between us. Try not to worry as they have not got any- thing on you.. It's the hell they are giving me. Also they know that I was in Baltimore with you.” The gasp that ran through _the (Continued on PageyZ, Column 8.) Stake All on One Bold Throw For Ruhr Peace, Urges Author By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 9.—The Massuchu- setts State Chamber of Commerce in a letter sent to members today urged (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Favors Evacuation of German Land, French Priority on Reparations, Brit- ish Cancellation of Debts, or—Break. BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. | his advice is taken, the latter guar- Author of “The Economic,_Conse | antee ho fs not in & position to give. e Peacer CoTeaenCes of | A I the first resort he has no Special Cable to The Star and New Republic. | Sure means at his command to in- LONDON, August 9.—Mr. Baldwin's | fluence France. If hls advice was draft note to Germany and M. Poin- | contingent on a speclfic promise from care’s reply are in most particulars | France and falls to the ground in the pretty much what every one expected. | absence of such a promlse: Mr. Bald- Mr. Baldwin is feebler than we hoped; | Win ought—if only for effect on the M. Polncare as unbending as usual, | feeling in Germany—to make this Only one point in the - documents | clear in his speech. He did not make themselves requires comment. v}n clear, rather the contrary. Never- v he ac- With the object, presumably, of! theless, we must hope that t tual note to be sent to Germany, if satistying dlehards in his cabinet and | gny note is sent, will, in face of the tn his party, Mr. Baldwin has con-|present position, refrain from any rtaken t - such advice. We are in danger of ey e e ovine Ger-, dishonoring ourselves in the same many. to ‘abandon passive resistanco.| gy as President Wilson dishonored Does Mr. Baldwin understand what ! himsel £ atter the armistice. e in- responsibility he takes on himself if) duced Germany to lay down her arms under the promise of peace on he gives this advice? There are only | fourteen points, and then found him- two conditions in which he 1s entitled | gelf impotent ;o c?rr}' out h(l;u prom- to take the line of & well-meaning | ise. We may be playing on Germany the same trick again if we induce her third party advising Germany for her | (o“give up passive resistance in the own good to abandon her only|expectation of a reasonable settle- weapon. He can advise her in this sense in return for a firm and specific BELGIUM HAS NEW PLANS FOR ALLIED RUHR AGREEMENT Reparations Limited to Ma- terial Damage and Debt Cancellation Proposed. {LONDON IS UNIMPRESSED BY CUNO’S DEFIANT TONE Chancellor's Admission Berlin Has Nothing to Expect From Britain Only Welcome Point. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 9—The Belgian government has decided to take the initiative and directly approach eat Britain and France if the reparations negotiations among the allies show no signs of belng resumed at an early date, says a Brussels dispatch to Ex- celsio: Premier Theunis and foreign minister Jaspar will come to Paris, the news- paper sa; to propose that the repara- tions claims from Germany, so far as Frarn nd Belgium are concerned, be confined to the material damage suf- fered by those counties, and further- more that England cancel the interallied debts, receiving from for her part the amount of she owes the United States. On this basi it is =aid, the Belgians will suggest that interallied pourparlers be started to settle the guarantees to be required from Germany. CUNO SPEECH DISCOUNTED. any money London Finds German Official Ut- terances Mainly Unimpressive. By the Assox LONDC Cuno's speech ter in ted Press. August 9 in the reich has had little effect where the dominant expressed by those in is that the importance German government utterances is ap Iroaching the vanishing point so fa s the actual effects are concerned The most welcome part of th speech was the cf lor's admission that the German government had nothing to exnect from Great Britain in the way of sympathy or assistance. It is hoped this will mollify the Isting that the present Britlsh policy is serving only to strengthen Germany's resist- ance in the Ruhr and elsewhere, - seemingl England, opinton thority Sure Hope for Accord. The cabinet met again this morning and continued fts efforts to formulate an answer to the French and Belgian otes which contained a virtual re- |dection of the British draft note to Germany. Great Britain will not yet admit the Impossibility of bringing the allies into accord for a joint reply to Germany's latest reparation offer, it appears from current utterances in political quarters No definite announcement of Britis poliey is expected until after the gov- ernment has had an opportunity to gauge public opinion after the pub- lication of the documents appertain- ing to the recent allied negotlations. The making public of these documents Wil probably be delayed until next week. GLOOMY AT CUNO SPEECH. Coalition Parties Regard Address on Rubr as Disappointing. By the Ascociated Press. BERLIN, August 9. — Chancellor Cuno's to the reichstag, in which he declared that passive resist- ance in the Ruhr and Rhineland would continue tc be supported by the nation, has been received as the most depressing statement yet made to the national legislature by the pres- ent government. The coalition parties regard it as disappointing utter- ance, The chancellor was visibly discon- certed by the boisterous heckling by the communist members who, when he arose to speak, halled him as “traitor,” “swindler” and “president of the 'Stinnes Company.” He was continuously interrupted as the ad- dress progressed, but when it was fin- ished there was prolonged applause. ‘Warns Against Violence, Asserting that the British draft reply to the last German reparation note contajned much that was fm- possible of fulfillment, Herr Cuno said it appeared England had gone extraordinarily far in her concessions to the French viewpoint. “It is necessary to continue with all our strength passive resistance. free from mad acts of violence and terror,” he said, “and to support ‘ac- tively from the unoccupled territory the population which is persevering In o passive resistance of its own will.” He refterated that Germany would address a inot “abandon a German land and be- tray fellow countrymen.” Repeating the French statement that the Ruhr was to be freed only when the last pfennig was paid, and pointing out that the “most vital instrument” with which Germany might pay had been taken away when the Ruhr was selzed, Herr Cuno asserted that if Germany’s collapse was to be accom- plished “in the name ef justice,” she must be under no illusion. sbmission to the merciless oh- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Announcement The regular edition of The Star will be issued tomorrow at 1 o’clock. A complete account of the funeral of President Harding at Marion will be published in the 5:30 Edi- as a pike staff. M. Polncare thinks it to his advantage that Germany ment. promise of falr treatment from should collapse; he believes that The position as a whole is as plain France, obtained by him as an inter- tion, along with other im- e e e e at every suburban station and every|guthorized possession of arms, with a | éverywhere was to be.seen the black cents; all other states, 10 cents—postage prepaid. dtreet Intersection across the eity the an Al- there is a reasonable expectation of people had been gathering for hours, (Continued on Puge 6, Column 3.) maximum sentence of imprisonment for ten years and a hard flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails added. ‘white bunting of mourning. most_every home had hanging in fts + (Gonduued ouckage b, Colann 6.) codlbihiha i A mediary. Failing this, he has no right to spenk unless he is prepared him- <lf to guurantee fair treatment if this within, say, two months; he feels Column 7.) portant news of the world.