New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1923, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9’1 13 News of the World July 7th ..., By Associated Press 1923 —SIXTEFN PA FES. Herald Will Give Out Bulletin Ser On New York Bouts Owing to the nen' manifest about town Willard-Firpo boxing mofl' Jersey City tonight, the will give a bulletin the attraction, X d A. P. telegraph 4 &‘§ ~de ] e 10 S || Fearing Anotlzer War, England is it Unwilling to Limit Air Defense known herc The prelimina #in at 8:15 ime, and the be without result. Talk of Naval Base. p. m., dayligh: main bout is slated for about 10 p. m. The lords also discussed the Singa- pore naval base in its connection with Anglo-American and Anglo-Japanese relations. Viscount Grey said that while everyone scouted the idea that the base was anticipating trouble] with the United States he thought frank admission should be made of the remote possibility of a conflict with Japan. He asserted, however, that Japan's participation in the ‘Washington conventions rendered the contingency of trouble so remote as not to justify heavy expenditures at| Singapore. i WORLD OPINION WILL BE GREAT INFLUENCE Debate on Reparations Issue | Will Be Withheld Un- til Next Week STIVVER 1S STILL SEETHING ILawyer for Contractor Calls on Building lnspector (Gilohresst WANTS WRITTEN REFUSAL Being Dis- | PERMANENT INJUNCTION | B GRANTED AGAINST RAILWAY WORKERS DEPT. OF A. F OFL. 400,000 Rairoad En- BAKERS DISPUTE OVER ployes and Shop Crafts - NON-UNION WORKMAN Officers " Affected l)y"Stl‘it‘e in R;I;I:; :)f Organi- This Most Wid“pread‘ zation Caused by Park- Restrainiqg Order BUT IS WILLING TO ASSUME FULL 'RESPONSIBILITY IN GERMAN REPLY Baldwin Says British Govt. Invites Sympathy of All Interest in His Proposals For Peace In Europe ‘V w&f Intrrr | Builder Insists He Is | By Taetknbskibtes Prose. London, July 12.-~The British gov- ernment belleves the European situ- ation to be so uncertaln as to render inadvisable the initiation of an in- ternational = conference on aerial armament Itmitation. Mention War Clouds. The house of lords, in the course of a discussion last night in which the possibilities of war clouds were openly mentjoned, was told by the Marquis of .8alisbury, lord president of the council that although the gov- ernment was on record as desiring to facilitate limitation of air armaments any move in that direction now would BURKOSKI-TOPPING ALL EVEN AT THE 18TH HOLE| | ! | | criminated Against — Commissioner Claims Fire Prevention Laws Are It became known this morning that | g “giaiy n nis fight against the it the New Britain branch of the Bak- |y, 4ing commissiont for alleged dis- LANI]S flN HEAI] I]IESI ) “.?“‘ uhion is und:rgn'i:g adnyflr'(od n?i I crimination against him on account of m'e":fl‘ 5““;*’;‘“[ A etine Satundny | Personal matters involving . himself gan be reached a RS Y | and Chairman Israel Wexler of the New York Tourist Meets Death in Accident in New Bedford Not Being Observed in Structure, er-Buckey Employe | Temporary Mandate Was Issued Last October, Pre- venting Strikers From| Interfering With Opera- tion of Roads. Says Occupation Is Failure, That Debtor Nations Now. Get Less Reparations Than Previously. ”:nlggkn ek i;l;;unth 'xl:,-”fi:fl::? commission, called at.the office of In- nu‘_kef, ;:k';:‘g" K p‘l‘flm o Fatke: | spector John C. Gilehreest this morn-| 1 o 8 3 ing and asked for a written refusal| ! ik % make alterations on the Wilcox prop- ;f,p;:’:a‘:;';,::‘; °‘;f:"|’:a:e‘;gr:£‘l‘f': erty, next to Adkins building on : ) 1 “ | Church street. ‘“f’?fin‘"fi{:g‘f_zfii:‘i N'f:_;fl;‘::‘“;;"};fl;" The inspector has already verbally B e be. tha buslnoas | Tefused to issue a permit unless the dislikes to dispense with her services, | {9t T e e it was authoritatively reported this 2 : morfilng. the management of the con- fusal ‘was asked for .hnra,\lso 'one of Sern hes delivered an ulflmatum fo | the Sity ordinances requires the pro- the union that the man will not be d"."""g ": :‘::h l‘]‘;”“‘u”;;ip";ofif ;‘2:’;‘_: discharged. It is said that the baking | ETlevanc Qe e 4 , company is agresable to meeting a of arbitration or the city court. He committes of the union, but that or- |ad he “I':“h“":a';“:r'“‘f‘r‘n:‘:‘""h:“ru]‘::é ganization prefers to follow its adopt- g:a:h:o;;opw:or h"“t o eliont ntt: | car was overturned. ed procedure of refusing its members | 3, Ins . s : el o~ the right to work with non-unfon men, | Mated that he planned to carry his| The haker-in question, one Feratt{ | Erievance to higher tribunals. DISCOVER FAKE ORDERS e I S Stein Claims Discrimination. Thers was & vacancy in the force at| Mr. Steln said he had been in busi- | Parker.Buckey's and after searching | 1658 in New Britain for 18 years and| vainly for & union baker in New Brit. | Would not erect a building that was TRk e aateh brd ,‘hmughou, the | NOL proper from a standpoint of safety ;mtn vthn fl.,"“ oftered him a job. He |OF appearance. He claims that Com- AR aR iy ; : 6 | missioner Wexler has held up all his reached an understanding With M%) o G oiione for permits and pointed business agent. Bouczzi, with whom | ! he was to work, that he would apply | Ot a8 examples one involving a store for admission to the union, This he | {ront in Central building and'the Cap- | siock were distributed among a num- Qid, but was rejected, it was explained | itol theater on West Main street| per of brokerage houses in Wall T°gm"‘"’ this morning. A fiery debate followed | Where extensive changes are being|gtreet this morning, but the fraud Blivkoakt in which the business agent cham made; also the Alex building on Arch| wag discovered before the market | In ploned his non-union helper which | Street, where threats have been made| opened and none of the orders is | ot D otion did not set well with his asso. | 0 an injunction for its alleged use as| believed to have been executed. [FREREE B (O Al ety tintes The meeting will e if|a Public garage within 500 feet of a Opening transactions in the stock| o - i e Sostal Eshing terred. Tn some instances troops|sequel Saturday when, it is reported, | church. Stein an.lh\\ exler ‘\v;]w\ :or- were delayed with only three sales at [, 7 7 1 W08 OO0 WOTLL MOV EE. were callad out and in others epecial|Boucasi will again attempt to have|merly partocrs in busihess and when) 85 1-4, 85 1-4 and 85 3-8 being re-| L0 " oaiiant. Topping started, off RUATdR Wereihivad: by tin railroads; |Earetil aeseptedli intoi'=the unton. (8 dissolution wasideclded npon, Btelnjioorded In the firat ihalf hour. AThe |l Eodiv e SRRt SR e The men returned to work in Sep-|Should he fail and the baking com- |88, they agreed to be good friends,) stock closed last night at 85 8-8. The| \F'0 L V70 08 (1€ CO8 Byl taiing el tember on the hasls _of what waa|pany decifnes to release him. the|but he claims Wexler has been oth-| fake orders wore turned over to stock | Kookl made it even by taking the | jaane e haliineit drresment: |vithdrawal_or union men from the er‘\‘;!:ex‘lr-r on the other hand says ::‘lcc}t‘l';:'!;n&1:52;{1,;:3‘:0:}‘0 HeLOon ping slipped upon the sixth 'by not | ] ed { - | L e ered. ) o 2 ::1’,1;1‘1.;“ ;\{;Lfir;;,:“fiz.’:: ':.‘.n"mfy?.:“pm" lajlikely (ope OrRatad |8tein has undertaken changes in| This Is the fourth time in. the last i‘::“:!h: ;‘*;:::d Tdm:?’"rr:: trg:“!‘th‘ ouestion of senlority, which was the | buildings and construction that do not | six months that fake buying orders| When he missed a four. The Nauga- main bone of contention after a| MUST [DENTIFY GUN meet the requiremertts of city ordin- | have been clrculated in the financial | ¥ rst nine holes i ances and that hs has had to keep | district. While the identity of the|? UP- . close watch on him. He denies any |'onIprits has not vet been Adissovered,| OR the hemeward iourney Topping By The Associated Press. London, July 12.—Great Britsin:has informed France and Italy that she is ready to assume the res of preparing the draft of a reply to the German reparation note. The reply will be submitted to the allles with least possible delay in the hope that they will agree to itsterms. Announcement to this effect was made by Premier Baldwin in a state- ment to the house of commons o= day on Great Britain's reparation poliey. Does Not Mention Terms The British government, he said, in« vites the sympathy of the allies and of all interested states for the pro- posal which aims solely at the pacifi- cation of Europe and the recovery of the exhausted world. Mr. Baldwin falled to state what the British proposais will be in the ‘note the government intends framing nor did he say anything in regard to aa international commission. to examine into Germany's capacity to pay. Premier Baldwin said it could not |be made too clear that the sole ground of divergence was as to the best effective rheans of realzing the e¢nds which were vital to all.. Those ends were the payment of reparations and the recovery of the security of Europe. To secure these ends, he said, .the allles have 'grudged noth- irg in the past, nor will they grudge anything in the future.!’ ¥ ““This responsibility,”” he went eon, . “is acknowledged and shared in equal Fiong spsclal digpatohes ‘mm‘meusure by the ailies but deve:lvu Washington tell the British public MIPspscully on. the Frenoh aof:Baitidh the reported summons of Amhaus&del'i‘;at‘on'. We arp as interested ns any New Bedford, Mass, July 12.—John Jackson of New York was killed here today whej# thrown from an automo- bile landing on his head in the road.| Arthur White of Boston who accom-| pamied him was cut about the face and one of his legs was injured White said that Jackson who was| driving had dpplied the brakes sud-| denly apparently in an effort to avert |a collision with a motor truck. The Chicago, July 12.—A final decree making permanent the temporary in- junction obtained by the United States government in federal court here October 5, 1922, against the rail way employes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, its of- ficers and others, restraining them from interfering , in any manner with the operation of railroads dur- ing the nation-wide shopmen's strike was entered ‘today by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. The injunction, which is considered the most widespread restraining or- der ever obtained, affects approxi- mately 400,000 rallroad employes and officers of the shop crafts concerned in the strike. strike 'Theoretically On, Theoretically the strike still is in effect. The shopmen left their posts on July 1, 1922, when the U. 8. Rall- road Lahor Board ordered a cut in| their wages, effective on that date. The strike continued actively for more than two months, during which, according to evidence introduced by the government, widespread asszanlt and intimidation of men who had taken places of striking shopmen oc- Phenomenal Young Naugatuck Golfer Ts Favorite to Win State Title This Afternoon. Groton, July 12—William Bur- | koski, the phenomenal young ;ol(er’ of Naugatuck, and H. J. Topping of | Greenwich, veteran player, were all even at the end of the 18th hole in the morning round of the finals in the te > < . Connecticut golf championship mer‘ &k e ¢ Flcod ‘Wall_ Sreot With the Shenecossett course. | nom;‘sum Demands Discovered Burkoski was the popular favorite | among the large gallery to win the | Just in Time This Moming. state title. | | ¥ Ci H | New York, July 12.—Fake h""’“g'Bur}ll(];dsil»« crders for Southern Pacific railroad | Out By The Assoclated Presy. London, July 12. — Last minute | changes were made by the cabinet this noon in the ministerial declara- Ition on the reparations question. It has besn decided that debate on the statement in the house of com- mons will be deferred *until next week after the European countries and the United States have had an; opportunity to record their views. The British government's future course of action is expected to be in- fuenced in no mean degree by the public opinion of the world. 553 453 444—37 454 454 45439 535 654 444—30—T6| @y The Associated Presz. London, July 12.—An unusually lavge throng of people flocked to the halls of parliament today to listen to the long anticlpated statemonts of Premier Baldwin and Lord Curzon on| Great Britain's reparations policy. | 1t has been a long time since any | ministerial utterance here was await- ed with such eagerness and curiosity. | (Continued on Fourteenth Page), POLICE WIELD GLUBS Two of Them Women, Six Persons, Arrested in Disturbance at Mass| | the grand Meeting of Springfield Strikers, | Springfield, Mass., July 12.-—8ix persons were arrested, two of them women, in a clash between some four | thousand telephone strike sympathiz-| ers and strikers, and a force of 75| police and military reserves late Inst‘ night following a mass meeting in Court Square in which a crowd esti- | mated at 1,500 was addressed by Miss Julia O'Connor of Boston, telephone | strike leader and local labor leaders. | ‘When the mass meeting ended the! striking girls paraded to the telephone bullding where a large crowd await- ed them. The girls hegan to picket the building where a large crowd awaited them. The girls began to picket the building in mass outside of the ropes which the police have kept stretched some distance out from the curbing in front of the building. | The crowd shouted derisive calls at! the police and reserves until after, police reinforcements had been sum- moned. Two wagon loads pf men were sent to the scene. As the erowd, constantly augmenting, grew more; nolsy, the officers were ordered t'-. clear the street and this they did in a charge with drawn clubs, NEW WAY T0 HIDE BOOZE | while driving and { tree he struck on March 14 and April | 8 when he was in accidents. Liguor From Rum Row Being Smug- gled Into U. S, Hidden in Hides of | Giant Horse Mackerel, Is Report. Lynbrook, N. Y., July 12.—A new vehicle for smuggling liquor from rum row is reported—the thick scaled hide of the giant horse mackerel. Fishermen in their dories hook the mackerel, some of them one thousand pounders, out of the deep, Divesting | the fish of his hide, they take the container to rum row and stuff it with bottled goods. Then they .!10\\" it carefully among bona fide fish which slosh about in the bottom of the dory and make for shore. Hundreds of botties are reported as coming through to regular customers. FIVE KILLED, 35 INJURED Fatal Accident on Mine Train 'l'ms| Ala. —| Moming Near Bessemer, Some Injured May Die. | Birmingham. Ala., July 12, — Five | men were killed and 35 injured, seven | seriousiy today when a train of trlp’ cars carrying the morning shift to work, parted in mine No. 1 of the| Sloss Sheffield Iron and Steel Co, near Bessemer, Ala. All the flead‘ and injured were negroes. FLOOD DESTROYS HOUSES. Saragossa, Spain, July 12.—8ixty| houses in Bt. Jean and several dwell- ings in the suburbs of Saragossa have ‘been demolished by a flood. | M. | York Consolidated Asked to ’Ie" If Gan Was One He Gave to Ward. Plains, N. Y., Frank Cody, chief of polic Rochelle, today was recailed before jury investigating the kill Clarence Peters by Walter S. White ing of Ward. It was understood that he would be asked to make a positive identifi-| cation of two pistols that ngmcd lu the tragedy. One weapon was ow by Ward and the other by I"e',(’rn‘ Investigators have claimed (hal llw | automatic alleged by Ward to hs been Peters' was in reality one given him by Chief Cody shortly before the shooting when Ward was appointed a member board. APPEALS FROM $300 FINE Willimantic Man Not Satisfied With Penalty Imposed for Driving Auto- mobile While “Under the Influence” Willimantie, July 12,—William Horton, head of a local sales agency for machines, was fined $300 and costs today on charge of operating his ma- | chine while under the influence of liquor. He appealed. When arraigned he had no counsel, but entered a de- murrer, which Judge Foss overruled. Tt was said that he struck a tree it was Despondent Wall Street Broker Commits Su1c1de‘. J., July 12.—Kenneth member of the exchange mitted suicide at the home of his sister here early today by shooting timself through the head. Serna Eyland, the sister, told the police Eyland had bheen despondent because of business troubles. 1“.\' land's two children, Kenneth M., Orange, N. Evland, a com- when their father took his life Man Breaks Back in 12-Foot Fall John Ankuda of Farmington avenue is in a critical condition at the New Britain General hos- pital suffering with a broken back received earller In the week when he fell from a stag- ing 12 feet from the ground while doing carpenter work on a structure being erected In this city. When the man fell to the ground Dr, D. W. O'Connell was called and ordered his immedi- ate removal to the hospital where it was learned that he had recelved a broken back. Dr. O'Connell sald this afternoon that AMkuda’s condition is criti- cal. of the New Rochelle police H. | ’\9“’ R(Nhl‘ul‘ Police (‘hIPI‘ Wil Be personalitics in the matter, pointing |out that Stein has been granted per- | mits on numerous occasions when his [spectfications did not show breaches lof the building code. Wexler's Statement Wexler stated that the case had heen misrepresented. He said that #ispector Gilehreest had not heen in- (Continued on Twelfth Page) BOBBY JONES MAKING EFFORT T0 COME BACK Launches Sally for National Honors in Final Qualify- ing Round at Inwood fated Pre July 1 By The Assoc Inwood, (“Bobby™) Jones of golf has been reaching closer and closer to the top with the passing tournaments, launches another sally for national title honors today in the fourth and final qualifying field of the 1923 open golf tournament. Last year at Skokie he shared sec- | ond honors with the veteran profes- -Robert ) Atlanta, whose the same: New | Miss | | and Marga, were asleep in the hmxm\ | “BOBBY"” JONES sional, John Black, with a card of 2589, one stroke behind Gene Earazen's winning 288. Shackamaxon club of Westfleld, N..J., vas drawn as Jones' partner for the round today. Another golfing day greeted Chnrlui E. Lorms of Columbus, O,, and B. F. O'Nell the first of the final qualify- (Continued on 'l'hm.eentn Page) — % the fraunds celved by speculators who hoped to profit if their scheme was nuccenrul, apparently were con- picked up a hole at the tenth and al- though he lost the next one he won | the 14th and 15th in par. Burkoski left openings so that Topping was able to even the score at the 18th aft- HITS IT UP AT 98 Veteran of Four Wars and Oldest Man To Wear Gob's Uniform, Gives | Credit To “Good Old Grog" New York, July 12.—Robert Lud- | low Livingston, alias Matt Green, 98 | years old, a veteran of four wars and | the oldest man to wear a gob's uni- form, has been permitted to return to | | the Orange county poorhouse. | Wearing a faded sult of navy “blues,"” Livingston was picked up on | Rivington street unconscious after an all-night encounter with “Bowery | | smoke.” A phalanx of medals and a | heavy white beard covered his breast. | At Bellevue hospital the ancient | mariner told the doctors his vigorous condition was due to “slumgullion and er both had played the last holes in faultless manner. second flight Robinson Cook of Hart- ford was elght up on M. of Woodway at the end of the morn- | ing round of nine holes. In three the | J. McCarthy DEATH OF MRS. NORTHEND Charter Member of W. C. T. U. Had Lived in This City Sinoe 1876—Fu- neral Services Tomorrow A!lerno(m’ Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nort She was born in East She was a hend, Glas- New | char T.| pe su. agi Bob Cruikshank of the| ers are aground off hundreds of houses along | have been destroyed in the storm threa days over southern South Am- the water front has| The vessels aground Brit- | Amstelland, Dutch and Devonier, Belgian. ert | !|lh ingston any pension because he enlisted, years ago under the alias, Matt Green. Leary, kllled Tuesday good old grog.” poor farm to await the results of a | | search of the records instituted by the | bureau at Washington, Liv- | drawn nsion ¢ He was sent to th laiming he has not 5 SUES FOR SON'S DEATH Boy Killed by Motor Truck, Seek- | ing Da New it for ainst t Brookiyn, N. Y., the car were rlrflng Montev th: ca Rug Tr father in Part been inundated. are: Dennis Leary, Father of New Haven mages of $20,000. Haven, July automoble today an afternoon $20,000' as he Arrow Haulage Co. whose truck crushe in which the Leary famil Five Steamers Aground In So. American Storm 12.—Five steam- port and the coast violent last ideo. July this at has raged for the of ia, German. Tuscany, efusis, British. Jul, At New 10:15 a. m.; HIGH TIDES i ¥ 13 (Standard Time) Haven— 10:21 p. m. At New London— 8:50 a. m.; 9:01 p. m. | THE WEATHER e Hartford, July 12.—Forecast for New Pritain and vicinity: Fair, without important tem- perature change tonight and Friday. 12.—Dennis | of a four-year-old hoy' collision | entered administrator, of | ter member of the local W. C. T. U. and a member of the First Congrega- | tional church for 47 years. | She leaves one daughter, Mrs, John Watts with whom she lived; two grandchildren, two brothers, Timothy D. Dickinson of Glastonbury and | George M. Dickinson of California, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Knapp, | of Washington, D. C.,, Mrs. Cecelia | Stevens of Philadelphia and Mrs. Serella Stein of Hartford. The funeral will take place to- morrow afternoon. Services will be held in the Erwin chapel, Rev. Henry W. Maier officiating. Interment will | be in Fairview cemetery. AUTO ON RAMPAGE Wild in Waterbury e | 8 | Runs Garage, d y No One Is Injured. | | | | | | Waterbury, July 12.—An automo- | bile coupe said to have been started | while the machine was in gear with | itially wrecked the interior of the Capitol garage, this city, this morning causing considerable damage but in- juring no one. During its run around the garage the machine smashed an office partition, knocked down shelves, smashed two gasoline tanks, and end- ed its flight when it smashed a plate glass window in the front of the | building. Nearly 200 persons were at- tracted to the scene within 15 min utes of the accident’s occurrence. |Slayer of I\aufiman girl May Have Taken Own Life Scarsdale, N. Y., July 12.—Believing | that the murderer of Miss Dorothy | Kauffman, may have committed sui- cide the police are preparing to search | woods for the body. Search for a negro suspected of the crime is being | continued LEE FOI\G TO HOSI”"‘AL Cileveland, June 12.—At a meeting | today of the board of directors of the, brotherhood of railway trainmen here, President Wm. G. Lee was granted an | indefinite leave of absence to v-nableI him to enter a local hospital next| onday for an operation. {the gasoline lever pushed down, par- | |ed by the Turks demand thi |Harvey to a conference with Secretary Hughes and of the prospect of Am- erican support of the British = pro- | posals. Although the afternoon developed into the hottest of the season the house of commons was crowded a half hour before the opening. The majority of the house mem- bers: were light summer suits while }hued gowns of the women spectators. | Count de Saint Aulaire, the French ambassador was in the front dip- |lomats’ row with Baron Moncheur, |the Belgian ambassador, the Italian |and German ambassadors and Dr. E uard Benes, foreign . minister Czecho-Slovakia. SUSPECT INCENDIARISM ;h(au- Police Investigating Mysterious Which Destroyed Colonial of died at her home at 61 Kensington | avenue last evening at the age of 76 years. tonbury in 1847 but resided in | Britain since 1876. Fire Residence in Windham. | Willimantic, July 12.—The colonial | residence of Mrs. William Highbee of | the Back Road section of Windham was burned late yesterday, and today the state police and county Detective | | William E. Jackson began an inquiry as to the origin of the fire. They say | it was suspiclous. State Officer Ray-| \mond Kelsey, who was sent to the | ulnce after the fire, traced !ootprlms ! from the ruins through a fleld and a| | gurden to the highway leading to a | neighbor's place. Mrs. Highbee on Tuesday was a | witness in court in the case of Carol/ | Schaminzki, who was convicted of aggravated assault with a gun on| | 8yivester Pelechatz and fined $50 with | a suspended jail sentence. | Mr. and Mrs. Highbee were not at home at the time of the fire. loss is placed at $20,000. The Tocal lack of water supply and time lost in [reach!ng the place made their efforts | of no avail. Nine Drlverq Tagged for Violating Parking Law Nine violators of the restricted dis- trict parking ordinance were obliged to pay fines of $2 each today. This makes a total of 18 violators of this ordinance to date this month, Captain | | George Kelly stated this morning. During June there were only five vio- | lators. CONFER WITH TU! RKS By The Associated Press Lausanne, July 12.—The and allied delegates to the Near East | conference conferred for four hours today over the fresh difficulties caus- the al- lied warships be withdrawn m the | straits when the troops are evacuated FRESH AIR FUND $3,804.20 2.00 Prey. acknowledged Total today . $3,306.20 One contribution only to the Fresh Air Fund was received at this office today . |the galleries were gay with the bright| Their | Turkish | of aur allies that Germany shall make - reparations for the damage done in the great war, to the fullest extent of her capacity. We have never (wavered on that point. The, govern- jment is consclous that, as a business |nation if we ask Germany to pay in excess of her capacity we shall not .succeed. Occupation Falils | “We are firmly convinced that measures which would result in the |ruin of Germany would be fatal to | this country, our allles, and the whole ,of Europe. The allies are obtaining |less reparations than before the oc- cupation of the Ruhr and these have to be exacted at the price of disloca- |tion of the German economic system and probably the futwre collapse of that system. Europe Is Alarmed ‘The opinion throughout Europe and not the least in Great Britain is be- coming more sensitive to these condi- tions with alarm at their continuance. The recovery of the world is in dan- ger. Peace is at stake. Peace can- not be secured until three questions |are settled: i 1—The payemnt of reparations. | 2—The settlement of the inter-al- |lied debts. 3—The .security of a pacified Eur- |ope. Takes Up Ruhr Probe. Dealing with the present situation in the Ruhr, the premier said in- | definite occupation by one country of | the territory of another in time of ! peace was a phenomenon rare and regrettable to which an honorable end should bg found as soon as possible. | The proposalu set forth in the recent Gurmnn note were inadequate, he ad- mitted, but they should be explored |and examined, not ignored. Must Be Definite In regard to the position of the als lies, Mr. Baldwin sald the exchange Smashing Up Things In General— | | fire department went to the place, but |of friendly conversations had not ap- | peared to lead to positive results and |it was becoming evident that the at- | titude of the principal parties must be more clearly defined. He held that ithe debtor should not merely be call- {ed upon to pay his debt but should be | plated in a position to do so. “We shall submit a reply with the | 1east possible delay to our allies for {their consideration and remarks,” he |announced, “and we shall indulge in |the hope that we may be able to ar. |rive at agreement with them on the Iterm: What the exact nature of the |reply should be, it would be prema- | ture to discuss at the present stage. “In formulating these views, his majesty’'s government is not without hope that they will be expressing the allied sentiments as well our own. We do not beliave that in principle wa jare widely separated if at all from { them {not be incapable of resolution.” Replies to Question Replying to questions by Ramsay {MacDonald the opposition leader fl‘rqm!ur Baldwin sald the reply ta {Germany would be sent immediately. = He would say tomorrow whether the reply was being communicated to the United States | *Commander Kenworthy b |member for Hull asked whether th 'government had approached or |been approached by the United |in the matter of reparations. | Baldwin's reply was described by i Divergence of method :heuu, "