Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 1

meuGeneanudhma defl—OftheS‘thmmPruflthudingWrm "FewCongreues,lfAnyConmmOuerUH“e Accomplished So Impressive a* Volume of Work"' Praises Mr. MondethmeReoo;muoH’m,Smnd ‘Judgment, Cander and Legislative' Experience. Waskington, Oct. 15.—President Hard- ing in a letter to Representative Mondell Wyoming, republican leader of, -the, otise, expresses his bolief that the gen- #ral results of ‘the accomplishments ‘of the repubiican ~ Sixty-sixth and . Sixty- seventh congresses “have been- so helpful to. American welfare that they .will, ot fail to appeal to the American people.” The president in his letter, which was made public tonight at the. White' House, further declarés that “few - congresses have been called upon for such arduous service as has been exacted from the Sixty-sevéenth” and adds that he.doubts “if any comgress in our history has ac. complished so impressive a volume “of work, touching =0 wide a, range of na- tional interests.” In addressing his letter to Mr: Mondell, who is the republican candidate for the senate from 'Wyoming, the president as- serts he does so “in testimony of my ap- preciation of the great public service * * & * of yourself as its majority leade He aiso praises Mr.' Mondell's “fine re- ®ources of patience, sound judgment, can- dor and legislative cxpzflencc o > Text of President’s Letter. i The ' executive's letter, written under date of Oct. 11, follows: . am- addeessing you,in tuumony of My -appréciation of the great public ser- viee of the present house of representa- tives ‘and of yourself as- {eader. +It'is an acknowledgment which I'record in this mamfier with the: more satiefuciion because of my warm personal sentiment for yourself, as well as my high estimite of your performance in the fhost trying posts under our. government. It has been a pleasure and reassurance o know that your fine resources of pa- tience, sound. judgment, candor, and._legis- latiye, experience were always rudy for application to the problems which "have conffonted the administration. g “Flow: congresses have been called upon for such arducus service as ha# been ex- Mcted < from . the :Sixty-seyenth. It “has been in approximately: continuous dittmg from the day it came into:existence. In the realm of achievement, its record is notable, 1 doubt if any congrees lilstory has accomplished so impressive a vulume of work, touching so wndc a rlnlz ul atidnd) interest e myst dissepi from t)m tpo;preva- lent idea (hat our plan of ‘congressional government is not. proving equal to the strain of these f{imes., The most casual student nf history, comparing the legisia~ ¢ neeord of the reconstruction period foilgwing the Civil war ‘with that of the \erod Soflovging. memu partisan, factional,; personal and secy Iunll strife in the law:making pr ss. Whoever will’ compare the turbu- lent period _ of _Jegislative and political higtory “from: the close, of ithe. <Civil* war to the end of President .Hay teRtian" with the record” made aemistice, four years .agn,-, must - agres With this fudgment. . He will find, .in the ¢ far peridd. such convulsions M ‘thé impeachment of one pre: embittered naticnal election conte v _prevalent conflict between and executive branches. Contrasted with that showing. the business-like faghion in which the Sixty-seventh congress has'ad- #igedt ilself to its huge task ought to in- #pire us with the conviction that condi- tions nowadays are met. quite as fortu- nately may be expected. “Moreover, Civil . war reconstruction was simpler than that reconstruction we Are, now urryln‘ on, because following the Civil war it was possible for our eountry to lean upon the financial and cconomic strength of other countries which had not suffered by the struggle; whereas today our strength is the staff upon which othérs would lean. . Then we oould turn for help to'many others who fvere able to give it; now we find not a few of them turning to us for help. A Trying Epoch, “If it be urged-that we cannot mrly mmure the conditions of ‘one’ generation with those of another, then let there be a somparison’ of - the , progress which our sountry has been making since the armis- ice with that of any other major bélliger- ‘ntiin the World war. ‘It must be agreed that- we hate’ come through this” trying wpoth with ‘less of distress and dishster chan many others of the great powérs. : “Bo, whether ‘the comparison is ‘made with our owh experience in after war re- sonstruction a’ generation ago or with the skperiences of other nations in the yéats vinee the World war, it is cleae that we have -beén most fortunate. The Sixty- seventh congress must be awarded recog- attion - for eplenddd achievements along hese limes. *“The two congresses serving since. the restoration of ‘peace have seen a world- wide inflation and deflation. Our coun- try has borne its part in this experience withotit even a menace to our gold stan- dard money system. What other country has such a record? Our government's sXpenses have been reduced in a propor- ‘fon unequalied, I think, anywhere else. War Debt Impressively Redueed. “Our own war debt has been impres- sively reduced and policies have been wdoptéd which insuce continuing redue- ton héreafter. Our military and naval xpenses Mve been restored apprenimate- i to mormal. with a promptness which' in @ more striking if we contrast it with the experience of other nations which paetigipated in the war. “THere iz no need for detail concc'llng the “lézislation which has been passed by | . the Sixty-seventh congrese. In 2 time vhén' wide differenees”in producing costs nd* & well nigh universal tendency fo eet barriers against iftefnational trade were menwn: our commerce and indus- try, Wwe have passed tariff " legislation whizh first protects our own producers, and, second, through its provisidns for admmistrative cdjustment of duties ‘to adept them to ghifting _economic rela- ticnas and enablés us to encourage foreign t-ade. 1In tha presént disturbed condition af money, exchanges and world trad: talieve that by inaugirating this poiicy of flexibility and elastiéity we have set An examnle which the commercial world il accept as a truly constructive foun- on on which to rest our commercial icy. The first duty is to protect our naticnal interests, but in many ways real neotection comes from co-operation with other nations. ‘The best intelligence of the day rnop.vn- the need to encourage \ntimacy and in the sociai, its . majority :‘ economic and-political family o;.m pations; and it Tecognizes that, in thus inaugurat- ing.a-plan- which 160ks 'to -intimate: con- Mdcrl«lhvn of the facts, we are offering. means of ‘true unification and solidarity among._ the ifterests wl make dp our industrial civilisation, and we are taking. &’ &tep toward .the solution .of one of the most perplexing. economic peobletns which contront the nations. . The last thing.in our. thonghts is aloofness from the rest of ‘the world, ‘We wish Yo be heipful, neighborly, useful. To protect ourselves first, and then to use the stréngth accru- ing through -that pelicy for ‘the genera. welfare ‘of markind is our sincerc pur- pase. . “No_other.. beiligerent.. -country - has since the restoration of peace, reduced its“expenditures so' rapidly ‘as has' our own. . For the year. ending June 30; 1920, our 'public. expenditures aggregated $5.- 403,343,000; a vear later, $5,115,920,000. For_the fiscal year 1922, $3,373,607,000. This has been possible through united and determined effort, legisiative and admin- istrative, based on_the sound business poley of ' prop budlet organization. The appropriation for ithe army for the fiscal yeaTr 1822:23 is 1éss than ‘oni um-d Lh t for, thé year 1913:20; nearly t a feduction” has' been -ommhd- in the navy. In ail other ‘diréctions, have only in' the provision for the care of those whe ‘the for us, there have been economies. In, making provision tocare for the rebabilifation of wourded. diseased and -disabfed men of the service o, expense has been “spared that was necdssary- to pdrform ‘the full national duty’ gratefilly and ‘generously. The na- tional fiecal policy Has been directed to a rapid deflmon wmch had get in, and to this end there has been a progressive re- duction . of “the -federal reserve discount rate, As a result of these policies, Lib- erty bonds have progressively cisen in value, The ‘general ' financial _situation has steadily (improved, and today the country. has a brighter prospect ahead of its business, industry and’agriculture than at any time sipce the mistaken program of ‘drastic deflation adopted by those who were then in control of government poli- "]cm - “There is reason for the most cordial gommendation. of the, program of ‘meas- | ures enactéd by the congress for the re- Habilitation' of agriculture,: the financing of ‘the'farmérs' needs, the opening of for- cign markets for their producfs, and the i1 stabilizgtlion ‘of the industry. The crest Wwas perhaps the worst gulferer ffom the slamp which fol- lowed ‘the restoration of ‘peace, and it cannot ‘but be a gratification to you and your assotlates who had so muach to do with framing - this " légisiative program that such far-reaching and beneficial re- slllu! have fo“kud it. i 3 Tlfl Geenral Kfllnl!l. 'Without attempting : to . suggest n enumeration sof* the accomplishments for | Which the: country .is-indebted: to ' the Sixly-seventh congress, and: its immediate predecassor, it |5 befitting to appeaise the general Jresults whlch have ibeen so help- ful to American weifare that they will not fail to-appeal (o tlam\rmal of the American people. NDTHD’G .\'EW IN nALL- MILLS MURDER PROBE ( New Brunswick. N. J.,. Oct. .15.—The local authorities engaged in the investiga- tion of the month o!d slaying of Rev. ward Wheeler Hall and ,Mrs. :Eieanor Rhinchart Fiills were practically. tdle; to- day, awaiting the order of Supreme Court Justice Parker of Newark which will de- cide whether the case is to .contiue ‘in. their hands’ or: be put in ‘charge of State Attorney General McCran. 1f Justice Parker's order, which is ‘ex- pected .tomorrow, places the investigation in the hands of the'state authorities, the leads which have been uncovered ‘by the three detectives from the: state comstabu- lary ‘will be takeén up by ‘the state prose- cutor's men. The investigation. Dl the. state :troopers has been largély' indépendent:of that be- Ing conducted by the.local authorities, and far more secretive, but one in ‘which certain citizens 6f New Brunswick «cepose the ‘greatest Taith, Noen .of . the-trio of troopers was.in town today, but ‘they were &aid to be fol- lowing clues-in other-cities of the state. [Their ' theory, in’the main, is that the couple .weré not killed on the Somerset county farm whére the bodies were found. They also attach® importance to the clue, first mientioned yesterddy by County De- tective Totten, that when the bodies were discovered the rector’s ‘eyes' had beem carefully . closed, while ‘those .of Mrs. Milis-had been’left open. - The ‘locdl authorities, who .have ex- pressed scepticism about the statement of Mre. Hall that she had never heard any gossip rmn\ln: her husband and -the choir singer, are seeking an explanation, it ‘was said, of certain statements ap- pearing in the letters found = with the bodjes. _In one of these letters, believed to havé been written by Mrs. Mills, the statement occurred, “Charlotte talks.” Countless- tourists continue to visit and inspect the Phillips farm. Automobiles of every description and bearing the license plates of many eastern and a few far ‘western states have been scen recentiy om the! rustie lane which Jeads into the farm and, near which the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Miils were discovered. ' A result of mis ceasejceg visiting by the curions” was © discovered tonight by Harry Leven, owner of the hiouse on the rm. ~Every knick-knack and object im s house which could be kept as “a sou- venir,” he said,-had been taken. chm and small tables, he reported, were among the missing farniturc. The house has now -been boarded- up. The poilce.” when in®brmed of these thefts, expressed the oninion that it was quite likeiy that the curic seeke:s had carried off what raight lster Teova tn be valuable clues inf the case. WOULD n,\v!’c GOVERNORS - ¥ SETTLE SHOP-MEN'S STEIRE Beston, Oet. 15.—Huwary - Abrahams, president of the -Bosten Ceniral. Labor Union, tonight in a leiter M ressed (o Governor Channing H. C. that, in view of ‘the fact it theve ap- peared to be no immediate prospect of settlement of the' rialroad shop strike in New England, a conference of the, gov- ernors_ of the New England statés be called ‘at’ the earliest possible date for m purpose’ of eqecun; a settlement. Several |- ArehLuvemThree hom——EuchSec_hontobg B ¢ A ; ° Adrianople, Oct. 15—By the A P.)— The - Greek military authorities have announced that the evacuation of the|" Greek army in Thrace will take place in three stages: first, in the Adriano- ple district; second, around Rodosto; and -third, at the Maritza river. Five dzys will be allowed each section to evacuate. i - The allied officers have been directed to refuse: inflexibly any extension of the : five day period. The Greek troops will be responsible for the maintenance of order until the time of. their departure. The expectation was- that the Greek civil authoritiés and .. gendarmerie after that date would :maintain order; but in mest of the districts the civil officials and the gendarmerie already are packing up and departing. Greek headquarters will ‘remain -at Rodoto until October 20. Afterwards it will be transferred to Dedeaghatch. One of the questions which arose today. was ‘concerning the telephone and telegraph wires and equipment, which ‘the Greeks were dismantling for transfer to Greece. They said they found the country denude of such means of communication when they entered and that therefore they. | purposed to leave it in- the same lsta.le when they ' quit the territory. Allied officials have filed a protest against the action of the Greeks, whid] has been referred to the Athens gov- ernment. The food ‘situation . in many places is serious owing to suspension of dis- tribution. , The Italians’will \be the first of the allied detachments to take over ad- ministration in*Thrace. They will Be in charge-at Tcherlu at the end of the first five-day Mfld. £ TURKS PREFER SMYRNA FOR PEACE CONFERENCE Ansora. Oct. 15 (By the A. P.)—The nationalist government has officially declined to accept the allied suggestion that the peace conference be held at Scutari. Hamid Bey, has been in- structed. to inform the allied high com- missioners at Constantinople that his government _ still prefers Smyrna as the, seat of the conference, so that Mustapha Kemal Pasha may attend. Yussuf, the foreign minister, ex- plained -today to the Associated Press correspondent that it would be diffi- cult for Mustapha to leave Turkish soil, as his presence as commander in chief is essential to the army, which is still:on a'war footing. . Yusst add‘ ed that if the powers insisted upo! Lausanne of' other European city fqr the confepence, the nationalist govern- ment prebabily accept, in whoih case ‘the delegates would be '.he min- istérs at London, Paris and Rome, headed by himself. Yussuf concluded by dechflng that the ¢onference should ‘be held imme- diately, as. delay. impaired Turkey's strategical position dnd strengthened the allies' hand. . The nationalist government has un- dertaken to pay all war pensions and alaries of retired goyernment. officials, which the Constantinople , govern- Iment on account of its empty coffers, 1has been' unable to discharge. ‘As an iimducement * to the ' sultan’s .cabinet to. resign, .thé nationalist . government offered to pay the salaries of the mem- bers for life, but this offer was re- Jected.” £ FEELING OF-GREEK GOV'T “ABOUT SIGNING-ARMISTICE Paris, Oct.-15 (By ‘the A.'P.)—The feeiing of the Greek government and its reservations in signing the Muda- nia compact are shown'in-an official communication received by the French foreign office today. “The "Greek government” says the note, “believing that the declaration made by-its delegates,’ especially that part of it concerning the delays neces. sary for the evacuation of the Christian population of eastern Thrace, should have been ‘taken- into consi ation,:desires to make a last appeal to the humanitarian feeling of the allied { powers in-favor of- those populations. -“However, - being desirous :of con- forming 'itself to the decision of the allied- powers, the Greek government finds itself in’the necessity of bowing before -superior- stréngth -and -adheres to the armistice protocol signed at Mudania October 11.%* No comhment was made by the French foreign office” concerning the Greek: note, - except to. say that ‘“no pressure has. bsen brought to - bear upon the Greek government to sign the armistice.” Y ——— RAILWAY TRANSPORT TO BE RESERVED FOR GREEKS Rodosto, Thra.ca, Oct. 15 .(By the A. P.)—Only four hundred freight cars are available here for evacuation pr- poses, according to railway. officials. Therefore, all railway transport will be strictly reserved for the Greek army during the next fortmight. The Mudania pact requires the mov- ingiout of the whole army in fifteen days, which means that the 60,000 sol- diers must be evacuated at the rate of 4,000 daily, with all their equipment and materials. As each freight car will be required nearly four days for the round trip from eastern Thrace to the new base, the railwaymen expect that a daily average of about 100 cars can_be counted on. The movement of refugees along tho roads is bound ‘to hamper the arm: copisiderably. The Greek -mormes compare the situation to that of 1918, when thousands of persons perished in the refugee movement ,toward 'J'h.race after the world war u.rmisnce. e HUMAN SEELETON FOUND "IN SWAMP IN DANBURY Danbury, Conn., Oct. 15.—Police he: tonight were investigating the discovery of a human skeleton in a swamp on the edge of the town. Word. of its discovery ‘was frst brought to .officials by a group of children this morning who had been playing near the swamp. The skeleton apparentiy was that of a woman about thirty vears oid and bore Do indleatiuns that it had been used for scientife purposes. Severzl of the ribs were fractured. The skull and one arm were missing. The spot where it was found js in.a fairly well populated dis- trict and pelice .do not believe that it could “haye been there long Wlfih@ut be~ ing seen, h[;, in Fhrme. says a '‘Rome menuge. t " new u.m ton Cunard 'liner Au- making her- first trip:to Americar. | ers, stopped at Boston - She' hmuim 2 nno pumfi:en : 1 tions and the United States opened the conveéntion ‘of the Interallied Veterans Féderation in New Orleans, Saturday. Exodus 'patriarch - at - Constantinople, Nuilifyins reservations to ths Wash- ington naval armament treatiss are cer~ tain to be adopted by the Freunch nariia- ment, says the Paris Herald. * TWhile the cashior of o Washington street restaurant, in Boston, was giwng him change for a dollar bill. a’ man , reached. over the, ocounter, between $150 and $200 in bills and fled. ' Fibode ‘Island onal ‘Ganré troops were withdrawn from strikc duty in the Pawtuxét valley Saturday by order of Governor. San Souci. They have beem in ficld service since last February. ' Executives of ‘Smith, Tassar, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley colieges met in Wellestey, Mass,, Saturday to diecuss problems of common interest among the institutions, v The railroad labor board tardsy granted two cents an hour incriase to 151,911 members of the United Bicth- erhood of Maintenance: of Way Em- ployes_and railroad shop workers. William A. Sunday, ‘Jr, in Los An- geles, son of Billy Sunday, the evangs!- , was arrested in Los Anzeles on a arge of specding and held in bail of 00 for appearance in police court. The army transport Thomas was or- dered by ‘Secretary Weeks to proceed to Los - Angeles “instead of San ncisco, to land the passengers rescued from the burned liner City of Honolulu. Rear Admiral WilNam Snowden Sims, president of the naval war college, who has comipleted 43 years’ cortinuous ser- Vice, read before-the coueze hus urders placing him on the reti--1 list Suaday because. he has reachod the age limit. Johns Hopkins laboratory tests reveal that immediate effect of smoking is a “lowering of the accuracy of finely co- ordinated reaction, but that there is no indication that speed of complicated re- actiofls is affected.” The annual reanion of alumni of Wes- leyan university will be held in Middle- town during the week-end. of November 4th- when ‘Wesleyan will play Amherst Dr. Stephen Henry Olin, acting presi- dent, will address an “all Wesleyan” ga- thering. For two days hundreds of cocaanuts each . bearing pastage stamps. and ad- dressed to Hanford MacNider, national commander of the. American- Legion in New Orleans, for the legion's nationw) c«wknfldn. have been arriving ‘n-New A statement that he had been kid- napped while, under the. influence of li- quor and that his assailants had per- formed a. noperatiion, removing a gland from his body, was made: to the police vy’ Joseph Wozniak, a patient in a Chi- mgo hosfliul Attempts’ of raliroads to increase rates on butter, eggs and pouit'y from Texas to .northeastern -states' were Gs:ilared by the interstate commeérce comm:ission 1o be unjustified and “scMcdules. incorporat- ing the increases which -veuld have gone into -effect next Novemder 18 were or- deréd eancélled, Anthony . Cassess, olleged. ' millionaire bootlegger, has been captured in Savan- nah,- Ga., : according-to a telegram re- ceived by the United Staies disiriet at- torney’s oftice in Brookiyn. The body of Isasac GugEenheim, the American ‘copper magnate. who died in Southampton, last Tuesday, was shipped aboard - the steamer Aquitania Saturday morning. Mrs. Guggenheim ‘and the magnate’'s daughter accompanied the body. . Friends of Justice Day of the supreme court are expecting a definite announce- ment from him within the next week or ten days as to whether he will resign from the court to devote his attention to his duties as umpire in the American- Geérman chims negotiations. cholas Tolitis, . Greek forelSn min- before sailing . for Athens . from Bari, Tt said that the monarchial ra- gime" in Greece is undombtedly shaken by recent events, but added that the regime ctuld not. be considered com- p'etely beuen. Cotton . consumed during . Septembor | amounted to 195,344 bales of lint and 39,833° bales of linters compared with $84,718 of lint and 60,710 of linters in September Mst year, the census bureau announced. A deputy U. 8. marshal went to New ord to-serve a warrant on'Jose M. Dominguez, master of the schopner Fa- yola, charging hfm with - landing two Pigs, a goat and a black theep a‘. that port before they had ‘been inspected by officials of the bureau o! animal indus- try. Walter T. Doyle, formerly a bookkesp- er in the Exchange Trust Company, in Boston, after beinz dischargel from cus- tody in municipal court on a charge of larceny of $18,100, was 1mmediately Te- arrested on an jndictment warrant alleg- ing larceny of $19,200. The body of Fay Shanm of Sherman, Maine, was fow jamin Sprague, in the woods near Bray- loy Lake, about 27 miles from Sherman, Me. .Shannon -had been hunting and it is ‘the supposition of the authorfefes thar he.” was - accidentally shot by ancther hunter. Tho reichsbanic has just isemed = statement declaring that -the = American losses through™ the depreciation of the mark are léss than $960,000,000, a fig- ure which it states was recently pub- lihed In. America, eays the Exchanze Telegraph's. Berlin. correspondent,; Ger- man experts put the total foreign losses as.high as $3,000,000,000. Iarmony between their several hun- dred shopmen who have becn idle since .| the general strike on July 1 of certain classes of railroad workers and the management of_ the ‘Maims Central rail- road sand - the Portland Términal - com- pany wag re-established -Saturday when [an’ agreement ‘was reached terminating the controversy. ° Rabelais p blxahed Ll'ns first alma., -nac- -dewoted -golely Fwhich 3 wes issued. of ' Christiane from Turkieh | New TYork, Oct.. “4—’1\5 Bfltlfll gov- ernment will interest on_her Ameflu.n war loans to Federal Reserve bank here for the gen- eral account of the ‘treasur ' of the United States by J. P. Morgan and” Company: The British war loans of lp'rox!nute— ly four ‘and a half billions’ of -dollars have been for some-time the ‘ccenter of discussion regarding the ‘payment to this. country by her war allies -of war loans of ‘more than eleven billions: of dollars. A British commission with pow- er to negotiate terms for the paymeht of the PBritish loans is expected -to .ar- rive here soon to discuss the' situation with Washington . officials. Aecording to unofficial adveies from London,.Great Britain has promised full payment. Previous payments to the United States by the British government have been for the account of purchases of silver amounting to several hundred milliens of dollars, made during the war to stabil- ize the 'ver currencies of India and yother British colonies. One of the re- sults of the war-time purchases of silver from the United States was the Pitman act, which empowered the government to purchase an amount of domestic sil- ver at $1 an ounce, equal to the amount sold Great Britain although the foxeign price of solver has been much less since shortly after the end of the war. For several months the British. govern- ment has been sending gold to this coun- try and also.buying. dollar exchange in anticipation of the first intérest ‘ pay- ment in war loans, ° Ji ‘P. Morgan and Company, estimated the gold shipments at between twenty-five. and. thirty. mil- lions of dollars. This gold was turned over to the sub-treasury here and-after its value had been by . assay the proceeds were -turnd over. to - the Morgan firm in the ferm of -a - check drawn on the Fedcral Reserve bank. Dollar funds were also accumulated in member banks of the Federal Reserve system. About ten checks drawn on the various depositaries of the British Internaiional fund. as well as a quantity of United States treasury certificates ma- tuing October 16, making an exact $50,- 000,000 will be the first interest payment. No explanation has been forthcoming here as to whether tomorrow’s payment will be considered by the British govern- ment as part payment of accrued inter- est on Britain’s debt or. for the actount of last vear's interest. TUnder the terms of the loans, tHe ‘accrued interest may. be refunded: - The ‘only information avail- ablc locally was that the ‘payment will Be “for, atcount of interest. LEGIONNAIRES IN-NEW . ORLEANS FOR CONVENTION New Orleans, La., Oct. 15_(By the A. P.).—Soldiers, saflors -anl marines of four years ago, members of the: American Legion, were gathered here.tonight for their fourth annual national convention, ‘which begins tomorrow and continues for five da; Last year's American - Legion: eonven- tion iKansas City, with Marshal Foch. Adm_g Earl Beatty 'of England, General Diaz of Italy and General . Jacques of Belgium as distinguished guests. was a combination of pageant and reunion en a gigantic scale.. This rear's gathering in New Orleans bore mors of the es»marks of a political convention. What the legion's future. poliey will be on adjusted compensation, -and what, if any, criticism will be levelled at the ad- ministeation at Washington because of the defeat of the compensation measure during the last session of congress, when President Harding's veto was' sustained, were, of course, outstanding questions. But they were by mo means the . only questions of importance to be brought be- fore the legion convention. Discussion of the progress made In camng for the dis- abled; the work of the United States vet- eran bureau, the part played by Brigadier General C. F. Sawyer, the president’s per- sonal physician, in connection with hospi- talization were also scheduled for sharp discussion. Coionél C. R. Forbes, head of the vet- erans’ bureau, is here, and his presence has aiready brought the charge from Wil- liam F. Deegan,.head of the convention delégation and a candidate for national commander to.suceced Hanford MacNider, that Forbes was hefe to Infiu- ence the convention at the inscance of the republican admiinistration in W!‘:ib‘um a charge sharply deniod b ‘Forbes, who ists to co-operate with the )zgwn on pmb- lems having to do with dieabled men. Committee meetings went forward" to- day, with completion .of the reports. of the commission appointed by_the legion to deal with Americanization, rehabilitation, ospitalization, legislation anpd simiiar topies having to 6o .with veteran welfare work. LONTON TIMES comvf ON THE TWO smcns London, Oct. 15.—The '!‘Imu n an analysis of the speeches of Premier Lloyd George and Mr. Chamberiain, says they should be read in eonjunction, and points out that while Mr. Chamberlain appealed mainly to ‘the Unionists and solemnly warned them that any revolt against the prime minister would be a heavy responsibility. likely to result in the eventual accession of a labor miinis- try, Mr. Lloyd George appealed more to the liberale, but. held out a hand to the men of all parties who were neiher re- actionaries nor, revolutionaries. By’ implication the premier. told the conservatives that if they wished to re- main in alliance with him 4hey must subdue the revolt in their own party. The Times interjects: ‘This necéssity has engaged the unionist leadeds for a long time, and vet the movement for party independence, instéad of abating, has grown to almost - ie strength.” The writer proceeds to hdhh '.hl( while Mr. Chambériain’ made’ the socialist-laborite menace, )(r vum George, on the contrary, sees the. possi- bility of new personal allies even in the labor party. He adds that there are] still . greater. divergencies, * for Mr. Chamberlain is willing to - postpone the decision as to ‘whether_ there shall be actual coalition or mere “co-operation between the unionists and liberals aft- er‘the election, while the premier insists that the matter must be settled tm}; with. The premier, 'he savs, does mot intend to fight an election with a party which may afterwards: repudiate his leadership. The premier’s speech. cleverly opened. out seyeral courses of future action, without committing himself to any one than another. e the ‘first' payment of | cuvdnHelrtyReeepbonUpoanRzmmhw London,: Ott. ‘1§ (By.the A, P.)—Pre- mier Li6yd George returned to London today. He met with a hearty recepticn trom crowds of admirers, and had conference. with Winston Churchill, sec Tetary for the colonies, MY, -Churchill will be in charge of tae Irtsh debate when pdrliament takes up the matter of ratification of the new Irish- censtitution. und as tke necessity of securing ratification before December | 6 makes this task a weighty ore in co: nection ‘with: any possile eariy appeal to the country, it is assumed that the whole subject Was threshed over. “The premier's speech at Manchesu Sgiurday leaves political circles com- pletely at a loss to prognosticate the next political movement. It is generai ly ‘supposed that there will be an e dissolutitn, ‘although this suppositon does not ‘arise from anything the pre- mier said at Manchester, but from a general review “of all the factors in che existing situation, and, above all, to the conviction that the speeches of the prine minister and the colonial secretary, from which s0 much was expected, ve in point of fact left things just ~as they were before and have done nothmg whatever-to” arrest the progress of the revoit in the conservative rank and fi'e against < the continuance of Lioyd George's leadership. uv.he’rune mimister has any definite plans he successfully concealed them from his . Manchester audience. His apologia, ‘as many describe his speech, has not served to {urn away the sharp edge ‘of criticism lately levelied at hix near eastern policy. J. L. Garvin, = the Sunday Observer penned one of the most scathing indictments of that poli= yet ‘seen, pointing out how, owing to th existence within the cabinet of two dia opposed polivies, it had b‘v 10 pursue a policy metrically George, or a policy leaning towards A MINISTERIAL CRISIS NOW CONFEONTS ITALY Home, Oct. 15 (By crisi, the government realizing its lack of ‘sufficient authority and prestige U reé-etsadlish respect for la’ Therefo it is believed, Premier Facta will prefer to resign- before the re-opening: of the chamber ratber than fice & graver sit- wation, such as dissoluticn of the cham- ver and general elections, The real rulers of the countTy NOWw arc the. fascisti,. who, ‘despi*c their excesses enjoy ‘the sympathy of a larzc majo: ity of the population, wiich attributes ism. . It. is _generally admitted, however. that the present situatioa cannot ¢ A= tinue. Benito Mussolini is practica’ a dictator as leader of the fascisti; he makes decisions even of the gravert characts such as demanding eariler sumnioning of parliament or suppressicn of the eentrzh office for the liberated provinces, headed by Senator Salata, t which the government is obliged yield, resimance being imporsible, sirce the fascisti count not only on the major- ity of the people, but also. the tacit sup- port of the army and police. Those who are opposed to the pres-nt system suggest the resignation of the government and the formaion of 3 new ministry by former Premier Gi-litti, sev- eral portfolios being allotted to the fas- cisti. But it is doubtful if the latt would accept, as the principal fascist! leaders assert that the cabinet must be wholly composed of fascis'i, so their program may de carried out. In the meantime, the strength of the fascisti is daily increasing: it amounts to 400,000 men wejl equipped armed and officered and includes detachments of cavairy’ and batteries of field guns, be- sides machine guns, armored cars an submarine chasers. Thirty thousand fascisti are being. concentrated at Na. ples, where -Mussolini will review them about the.end of the month and will de- liver'a long looked for speech. Municipalities . held by. socialists communists . are comstantly ' occupied fascisti, -who compel subyersive admin- istrations to.resign. The socialist dep- been banished from “near Naples, because of hir hostility. to -the fascisti, that and KING, AND. QUEEN OT ‘ .- RUMANIA PUBLICLY CIOI'SZDI Albujul.h Rumasia, Oct. 15.—(By The P.)—King Ferdinand and Queen Ma- rte were ‘solemnly crowned today in the vast -public square .amid’ the plaudits of | thousands , of . picturesquely dressed Ru- manians. The ceremony was carried ou withopt incident. Promptly on the conclusion church service, a procession was form- ed, and the sovereigns, escorted by the Duke of York, Prince Paul of Jugo-Sia- via, the Duke of Genos, the Infante Al- mnlpw by the metro- politan. and bishops, marched from the church to ‘the richly .decorated dals in muufofmm Stands had been erected around the square for the llh personages of the kingdom, and the rest of the space was dense with of the ‘As-soon as the sovereigns had taken it 3 known. then clothed’ in the royal mantles and The * procession was loudly acclaimed minutes after his automobile crashed in- to, another _car. in East. hen.rk -today, Harry Schnaider, of Irvington, N begun to served a thirty day sentence for reckless driving. Pflflu-wlr John J. Murphy, who Ir-am the A. P.)—ltaiy 2 is’ dgain confronted with® a ministerial|the signing of the armistice saved Berfin their eacrifices and Zaring the fact that Italy has not fallen a prey 1o hhhc\"’t‘l\ 7S e Turkey, and declaring that the e meént in fact had fallen betw towe steol: 1 et Asserting that the government HE¥ spent between twenty and thirty ‘mmb lion pounds sterling in war ons only to bring Turkey back:into Burape in a more firmiy established posithm than before 1914, he sa were supposed o have cast in the great war, not one asset ¥e- mains, while the loss of our moral pe- pute is unparalleled our relstiomns Islam is persistentl, asserted that t‘h volting conservatives 'n their Non‘ convention will adop tically depozing 1 hip and placing the conservatve in the future under a conseryp: leader, relegating Mr. Lioyd George he cares to accept that. position, ie Jeadersh'p in the house of commons a conseryat've premier in-the that the comservatives in the next gep- cral election come back strong enough e form a government. The question stiil not solved is wheth- er Mr. Lioyd Georze will try to forestali this development by |immediatc tion or dissolution of parliament - . No meeting of the cabiner has bees called for tomorrow as the premmier has decided to take a day's rest. The Sunday Times declares that b day Lioyd George's speech yesterdsy means nothing if not an early general clection. Although the premier did nol indicate. any date for an eclection, m paper cxpresses the opilnon that ths present parliament which - stands- pRd- rogued untll November 14, will mot mget again. and that its dissolution announced early this event. the journal believes th wiil be held early in November and the new parliament assembled in the coumse of a few months, AEMISTICE SAVED BERLIN FROM AERIAL ATTACK Cleveland, Oct. 15.—The story of h% from an aerfal altack was related bess today, with the permission of the ernment, for the first time by Lester Barlow and Glenn L. Martin, inventers of a device for a long range attack. Only a few persons are said to have known the secret, 50 closoly was it guarded. The basis idea was the umbc of the fiying - torpedo, . bailt olong the lines of the dusl-motored ing plage, with a smail planc of the scout 'y type but carrying a large fuel tank, Mr. Barlow said. In fiving to the the two plancs Were to bate been a single umit, the smafler plane's engine drawing its fuel from the torpe- do planc's tank, leaving its own < fuel supply intact for the return The range was limited only to the distance the smaller plane could traye in bringing the pilot back to the Amer- fcan base, Mr. Martin explained. _“I1f the war had continued, Cleveland would have contributed two inventions which would have ended it speedily,” declared Benedict Crowell, former ae- sistant secretary of war. “One would have been this flving torpedo and the other the deadly gas which was develop- ed in the ‘mouse-trap.’ “Our scheme to biow to atoms the German capital—700 miles from the bat- tle lines—was 50 simple that General € O. Squire, American ranking general of the air forces, was skeptical,” Mr. Bav. low said. “When he was convinced of its practicability his greatest fear was that the Germans might hit' upon the same idea and put it into effect we could get the necessary equipméit across the Atlantic. Under the plan as adopted a fleet of fiying torpedoes, each of 500 horse-pow- er, would be piloted under cover of dark- ness from the American lines to within a few miles of Berlin. The pilots would return while the fiying torpedoes com- tinued under mechanical control to center of the city. There the automatically would be blown from the torpedoes, causing the whole mass e fall. On striking, the tofpedoes, each ‘ol ¢ | which would contain a ton arid a halt W T. N. T., or the cquivalent of poisonous gases, would In order to assure a thorought: cesful attack our hope was to a fleet of at least fifty of these units against Berin. Their flight wia to be so arranged that they could ap- proach .the city from ail dm"d:l- ultaneously. Two months before the armistice wAs signed, the inventors say, the governinest ordered them to proceed immediktaly with the production of a flying torpedo fieet. A “thousand airplane ‘"t Mr. ‘Martin estimated. could “be z structéd and used for the cost of modern battleship. He estimated: cost of one such torpedo at $50,000." The idea came to the inventors in Oer tober, 1315, when Mr. Barlow was em- ployed in the Martin airplane haz.y n Los Angeles. Calif., shortly after his rQ turn from Mexico, M. as l on the staff of Genersl Franc! hemdnuedmmhmwlll. first airplane bombing squadron in the world. it had rcleased from its large m‘ planes over the North Sea small flmulmlrnnmmm Mr.' Barlow explained. “‘Rather k b fusing together of * what- was - théh YALE STUDENTS ON WEST ROCE usctzn BY FIREMEN New Haven, Conn., 15.—Thres Yale freshmen, eager to Siaetaa man- otony of Sunday, started. this on ‘an exploring trip to-the face ‘of ‘Wi Rock, a ~l.hecr‘ mh 400 - feet near here, an accomp] than two-thirds of their " journ: they found themselves in the delicate sition of being unable eithter to or retreat. m-uua' motorists who notified - the + pelics’ . had | fire departments and