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4 TONIGHT AND SUNDAY: VARIABLE WINDS, BECOMING SOUTHERLY. CRACKSMEN BLOW 2 SAFES; GET AWAY WITH $10.000 LOOT Experts Make Big Haul in Watch Case Concern on Franklin Ave. Cracksmen who left a full kit of tools behind them and evidently worked with cotton or rubber gloves ripped upon two safes in the work room of the F. and F. Watch Case Company on the second floor of 523 Franklin some time Wednesday night, and got away with loot which is variously estimated at from $3,800 10 $10,000 in value, the lowest figure being that of the police.

No finger marks were left and the job had all the ear marks of the handiwork of experts. They left, behind a kit of sectional jimies rippers of various sizes. A ripper is an instrument shaped a crowbar with a projecting flange which 1s useful as a lever in prying the steel casings off safes. They come in different sizes. The safes ripped, each weighing about 500 pounds.

These were moved from a rear office the workroom, overturned, so that the face. was uppermost, and then the thieves set to work, having first muffled al: sound by clothine beneath the steel receptacles. Sixteen holes were the steel outer casing of the Arst sate attacked after which it was pried off and the cement backing chipped away. Then the thin inner sheet was ripped off and the contents exposed. No acetylene torch or "soup" was used.

The second safe was opened by similar methods. Included in the loot was $1,500 in I cash, 300 watch movements of unstated value, a quantity of 14-karat gold used in making watch cases and between 300 and 400 finished watch cases. Bags of molten copper which resembles gold and which the thieves may have thought to be that mineral were also stolen. the the rooms from a The thieves, apparently got into pool- room 50 feet away. SEEK 'RED' MADISON FOR MURDER; CROWD SAW HIM KILL REGAN Woman Mixed Up in Restaurant Killing Arrested Yesterday for Robbery.

Daniel Regan sat table. second from street door, in the restaurant at 319 Court street, at 12:30 o'clock morning talking with John Bradley about some recent prize, fights when Louis Madison, known to the police as "Red," appeared in the doorway, drew a revolver and fired four shots. Regan was hit twice, one bullet penetrating his right chest. and another head. The markmanship was not seven others in the place Injury.

Regan staggered to his feet, made a dash for the kitchen in the rear, and dropped dead. The police came. and Ambulance Surgeon Lusk. from the Hospital of the Holy Family responded to a call, looked at the dead man, and went away. Detectives from the Butler Street Station and Assistant District Attorney Neuwirth were on the scene in less than half an hour and corralled the seven other people, two young women, until their stories could be told, and taken down.

All agreed that the man with the gun was Madison, who had been having some trouble with Regan about a woman, and who had disppeared with his revolver after his job had been finished. Nobody knew. where Madison lived, and the police are still looking for him. There was something unsavory about the entire story. The restaurant at 19 Court st.

is kept by one Ralph De Guido, whose place has been the result of Mullen-Gage Law raids. Peggy Regan, the rather pretty young woman known as Regan's wife, was arrested yesterday by Magistrate Brown for a hearing on Friday next, charged with grand larceny, in the robbery of $80 and some ship's papers from Johan Holmross. the third officer of the steamship Edgar Bowling, now in ing. just 24 hours before Regan met this 1 port. At 12:30 yesterday mornhis death, Holmross met a young woman in place at 319 Court st.

and went with her to 183 Schermerhorn st. While he was there, he claims, Peggy Regan entered the r'00m and stole the money and papers. Madison. is said, was very fond of Peggy and her arrest and the circumstances surrounding the rob. bery with which she is charged may have angered Madison against Regan: but there were no words exchanged between the men when Regan was shot down this morning.

Regan was 21. He had been gaged as a 'bartender" in a saloon supposed to be whiskiless. HARDING HOME CITY HAS GONE BANKS REFUSE LOANS Marion. May 19-President Harding's town is financially broke. With banks refusing to loan the city any more funds no money available from county and state funds until next August, the City Council today placed the situation up to the Mayor when it passed a motion directing him "to find ways and means to raise funds to pay policemen, firemen and city employes until Jan.

1. The City Council recently passed an occupational tax ordinance whereby all industries and businesses of the city be required to pay a tax and which. it was pointed out by sponsors of the ordinance would provide sufficient funds to run the city until the next settlement with the County. The Mayor, George Neely, vetoed the ordinance, but offered no solution of the city's financial plight. Yesterday, banks loaned the city $3,540 to pay city employes their back salary, but announced this would be the last loan they would make the city until the next August, the time of the sembannual.

county and state settlement. BROOKLY NEW YORK Mayor Against Acceptance Of Gerritsen Park; "Bunk," HeSays; Harman Disagrees HERE AND NOW Volume, 83 GOOD NEWS BRIEFS. Representatives of Labor Unions and 1 Manufacturers terminated their conference at the Hotel Biltdore in complete agreement on all points at issue, after a session which included only two Clashes, one Split and no Deadlock. As John Shultsberg, proprietor of a meat market at 725 street. was counting up the day's receipts in the cash register last evening a taxicab drew up at the curb and a young man wearing a cap pulled well down over his eyes entered the shop and inquired for a family named Green living somewhere in the neighborhood.

Shultsberg furnished the address. Margaret Mantelli. 2 years old. while playing in the kitchen of her home at 900th street, noticed a box of matches upset on the floor. The child called her mother, who placed the matches upon the shelf from which they had fallen.

N. H. The Feature Section of Today's Eagle Is Combined With This Section CHAMBER URGES PENN. R.R. ABSORB L.

I. R. R. SYSTEM Actual Owners Should Assume Responsibility for Service, Grace Declares. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce recommends that if there is to be any general consolidation of the railroads of the country into a few large systems the Long Island railroad should become a part of the Pennsylvania system.

The recommendation is set forth in today's issue of Brooklyn, Chamber's publication. The Chamber was represented during the week at hearings du in Washington before the Interstate Commerce Commission by Traffic Secretary Frank E. Grace. No opposition is made by the Chamber to the general scheme of consolidation by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Chamber's only declaration is that if such a scheme is adopted, the consolidation of the Long Island system with the Pennsylvania is essential.

The hearings at Washington began last Thursday with a view of getting the opinion of the country on the general idea of railroad consolidation. The commission has outlined, a plan grouping all the railroads of the country into a few large systems. Group No. 2 is to consists of the Pennsylvania Company, its subsidiaries, and some other lines which would logically some in the Pennsylvania group. The Long Island Railroad is included in this group in the commission plan.

Secretary Grace said: trol of the Long Island Railroad by "Prior to the ac acquisition of the conthe Pennsylvania, this railroad was unable to give transportation service by reason of its poor credit, and the equipment and service have long been below the standard which the traveling public were entitled to, SO that when the Pennsylvania took over this property the people of Brooklyn and Long Island accepted the Pennsylvania's acquisition of with open arms, believing that it control of the Long a Island system had at last passed into competent hands of ample resources for the proper development and service of Long Island. "While many improvements have been made since the acquisition by the Pennsylvania Railroad. we believe it would be in the public's interest if the Long Island Railroad was taken over or consolidated with the Pennsylvania Railroad and operated as an integral part thereof. It. would insure a larger proportion of freight and passenger traffle to the Long Island Railroad by rendering it more capable of efficient service.

"We believe that responsibility for efflcient management should be focused upon prime owner, and therefore, indorse the tentative plan Interstate Commerce Commission for the consolidation of the Long Island Railroad with the Pennsylvania, which, by the way, is the only main artery of transportation on Long Island." Woman first tempted man with an apple. Now she is tempting members of her own sex into the tangles of the nefarious drug traffic, according to 'narcotic experts. tells Alma Sioux Scarberry about it in next Sunday's Eagle Magazine. A REAL MAGAZINE 7 h2-I-vr .40 ATURDAY, 8 JLFERS TRAIL BRITISH IN CUP MATCHES Five English Players Leading at End of Morning Play--Other Three All Square. St.

Andrews, Scotland, May 19 (By the Associated Press) -A biting wind was blowing over the St. Andrews course this morning as the American and British golfers set out 10 play the eight 36-hole singles matches which are to determine possession of the Walker Cup. The British players needed to win only four to take over the trophy. The largest gallery trailed behind Francis Ouimet and Roger Wethered. popularly regarded as the two best amateurs competing in Great Britain this spring.

Ouimet was especially anxious to defeat the British amateur champion in to avenge his elimination by Wethered in the Deal championships week. At the end of the morning play, the outlook for the Americans was exceedingly bad, as five Britons were leading their Yankee rivals while the other three matches were all square. Roger Wethered was 2 up Francis Ouimet at the end of the first round. Cyril Tolley was 1 up on Jess Sweetser, the American amateur champion. Robert A.

Gardner, captain of the American team, and Robert Harris. were all square. W. W. MacKenzie, British.

was 2 up on George P. Rotan of Texas. E. W. E.

Holderness, British, was 3 up on Fred Wright Jr. of Los Angeles. W. L. Hope.

British, was 1 up on Max Marston of Philadelphia. Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, and W.

A. Murray, British, were all square. S. Davison Herron of Chicago and John Wilson, British, were all square. Tolley gave Sweetser a hard proposition in the morning the former British amateur champion going out against the American champion in average of 46 for a medal score of 36.

Sweetser was playing good golf, with a count of 39, but was 3 down to the Englishman when they turned and was 4 down at the fourteenth. The American began to show improved form here, however, with a 3 on the fifteenth and 4s on the next two to win these holes, but missed a 6-foot putt to square the match on the home hole. The cards: Tolley, out .3 5 4-36 Sweetser. 5 4 4-39 Tolley, in 5 Sweetser, in .3 Wethered and Ouimet were nip and tuck going out, making the turn all square. Oulmet won the eleventh, but lost the lead when he was bunkered on the fourteenth.

Wethered came within an ace of sinking his second at the sixteenth, and took the hole with 3 to Oulmet's 4, and became 2 up at the seventeenth by holing a 10-foot putt. The cards: Wethered, out. .5 3 5 3 4--89 Oulmet, 3 38 Wethered. in. 4 3 Oulmet, in -39-77 Both Gardner and Harris were steady in their play, with the lead see-sawing.

Harris was 2 down at the fifteenth but squared the match by winning the next two holes, while the eighteenth was halved. The cards: Gardn out 3 4--39 Harris out 4-39 Gardner, In -39 Harris, in 5 5 5 4 4-39-78 The Hope-Marston match was all square at the turn, but Marston started well going home and the Britisher was 2 down at the twelfth Hope evened the match, however, at the fifteenth, and sank a long putt on the home green to make him 1 up. Both Hope and Marston did fine work on the fairways but neither was putting well. The cards: Hope, out 3 4--40 Marston, out 4-40 Hope, In 5 -38--18 Marston, in 5 5-39---79 Wright and Holderness were all square at the turn and were still at evens at the fourteenth. Both men were playing brilliantly, but Holderness outshone Wright at the next stage of the match, winning three successive holes in 48 and making him 3 up at the end of the round with the fine medal score of 74.

The cards: Holderness, out. 6 03 3 3--88 Wright, out -38 Holderness. Wright, 5 5 6 4-39-77 Dr. Willing had an uphill fight to square the forenoon round with Murray. The Britisher's deadly short game gave him the lead going out and he was 1 up at the turn, but on the way in the Oregonian was greens.

superior in After his being play 3 down through at the eleventh, Dr. Willing won the twelfth, sixteenth and seventeenth, thus squaring the match. The cards: Willing, out 6 6 Murray, out -39 Willing, in -39-70 Murray, in 4-40-79 Herron fought gamely and successfully to even his match with Wilson after being 2 down at the turn and at the same disadvantage on the thirteenth. The American had entirely recovered from yesterday's unsteadiness and he came home in a solid block of 48 with the exception of the 456-yard dog leg seventeenth, squaring the match by winning the fourteenth and fifteenth holes. The cards: Herron, out OT -42 Wilson, out 21 OT 1 -40 Herron, in: C1 Wilson.

in 5 4 4--39--79 At one time during the Mackenzie-Rotan morning round Texan was trailing badly. After being 2 down at the turn, he lost the eleventh. twelfth and fourteenth holes, making Mackenzie up. Rotan braced here, however, finishing the round strong by winning the last four holes and was only 1 down. The cards: Rotan, Mackenzie, 65--40--79 Mackenzie, out.

Rotan, in 4-40-82 MAIL ROBBERY ON LINER MINNEKAHDA Plymouth. May 19 (By the Associated Press) --A robbery among the mails brought from New York on the liner Minnekahda was reported when the steamer arrived here this morning. It was stated that 15 mail bags were missing, insome containing registered letters. GARIBALDI'S SOLE SURVIVING SON DYING Rome, May 19-Gen. Garibaldi, last surviving son of the great Italian hero.

is dangerously ill from heart trouble. and his physiclans express little hope for his covery. He is 78 years of age. DAILY MAY 19, 1923. Prominent Engineer Who Died Suddenly at Home WILLIAM S.

MACDONALD WM. S. MACDONALD DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS FLATBUSH HOME Retired Engineer and Prominent Civic Worker Stricken While Seated i in Chair. William Stone Macdonald, former prominent civil engineer and one of the best residents of Prospect Park South, where he was active in church and civic matters, died shortly before midnight last night at his home, 1305 Albemarle rd. He was sitting in a chair reading when he suddenly collapsed.

A physician who was called said that death was due to cerebal blood clot. Mr. Macdonald, who was 61 years of age, retired 15 years ago from active work as a civil engineer. He had had charge of many important engineering projects in the South and Middle West, and also built a number of large bridges across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and large operations at Jacksonville, Fla. He was born in Conada and was a graduate of the Troy Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. Macdonald was interested in farming and had a large farm in Canada where his family spent the summers. Here he worked and developed his estate as a "gentleman farmer," and was noted for his knowledge of scientific farming and agriculture. His selection by Governor Whitman in 1916 as a trustee of the State Agricultural School at FarmIngdale, L. met with universal approval.

My. MacDonald gave his time unsparingly to. civic and philanthropic matters and was one of the prime movers of the Prospect Park South Association, of which he was formerly the president and at the time of his death was treasurer. He was also active in the work of St. Paul's P.

E. Church, of which he was treasurer for many years until recently, and the Union League Club. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society. He is survived by his wife, Louise D. MacDonald; three' daughters, Mrs.

Marion Grant of Buffalo, Mrs. Edna Glaeser, of Salisbury, and Lillian MacDonald, and his father, Charles MacDonald. The funeral services will be held at his home tomorrow afternoon: at 3 o'clock, his the Rev. Dr. Henry Glaeser and the Rev.

Wallace J. Gardner, rector of St. Paul's P. E. Church, officiating, Interment will be in Canada.

TWO BOYS RESCUED AS SWELL SWAMPS CANOE OFF FLUSHING After clinging to the sides of their upturned canoe or more than a half hour in the semi-darkness of Flushing Bay last night two boys were found by a rescue party and taken safely ashore. Both were exhausted from their immersion in the cold waters of the bay and were holding on by sheer grit when found. The boys are brothers, Charles and John Berger, 21 and 16, of 308 15th College Point, Queens. They started out early in the evening from North Beach for a canoe trip. The accident happened when they were homeward bound to the foot of 1st College Point.

A huge swel sweeping out from the sides and rear of a passing ferry boat caught the frail craft full on side, overturning it and spilling the boys in the water. HAGEN ONE DOWN TO JOLLY AT LEEDS Leeds, May 19 the Associated Press). Hagen, American holder of the British open golf championship title, was 1 down to H. O. Jolly of Foxgrove, his English opponent, in the final of the professional tournament.

here at the end of the first round this noon. A gallery of a thousand witnessed the start of the match, at 36 holes. The weather was fine but cold when Hagen and Jolly teed off. The early stages of the match were marked by ineffective putting by Hagen, and although he improved later in this respect he did not have the lead once in the first eighteen holes. Jolly played coolly and deliberately to maintain his lead in the game, in which both competitors were driving well but not putting up to their standard in yesterday's matches.

Cops Nab Alleged Burglar Walter Schwab, 19, charged with burglary, was arrested today by Detectives Abt and Hemindinger of the Wilson ave, station. According to the police he is alleged to have robbed the store of Schrier Brothers, haberdashers, at 1856 Myrtle ave. of clothing valued at more than $1,000. EAGLE 22 PAGES. Secret of Law's Malady Guarded by British Press; Premier Desperately Ill Paris.

May 19-Andrew Bonar Law, the British Prime Minister. who has been spending several days in this city, left for London at 8:40 o'clock this morning. London, May 19 By the Associated Press) -The press is evidently respecting Prime Minister Bonar Law's desire that a complete silence be maintained as to the nature of his malady until he himself authorizes a statement. The newspapers say practically nothing about him illness, but editorially they, voice the nation's admiration the Premier's strong sense of public duty which, under the painful circumstances, alone could have fortified him to carry on his difflcult task. It has now become known that the Premier has been fighting his compialnt ever since he assumed office and it is not thouht possible he can continue much longer.

Mr. Bonar Law has been the moderating influence in the internal rivalries of his party and it would appear that whoever his suecessor may be these rivalries will become more pronounced. The government has suffered a -5 0. P. RESENTS MACHOLO'S ENTRY IN TRANSIT ROW Charge It Was Error at Moment Subway Compromise Loomed.

Republican leaders here and in New York County have come to the conclusion that if Speaker H. Edmund Machold of Jefferson wants to put himself "in solid" with the voters in New York City, he had better "lay off" the transit situation in his speeches here or else stay at home. It developed today that Mr. Machold, in the minds of the G. O.

P. leaders of New York County, made one of the worst mistakes possible by scoming here and discussing transit just when it appeared as though the McAneny Commission and Mr. Hylan had come within the range of a compromise. "Machold got himself in bad all right," said one of the Republican leaders today. "The New York County forces are fairly disgusted with the manner in which he allowed himself to become entangled in 1 controversy with Governor Smith on transit.

If Mr. Machold wanted to speak here he should have confined himself to water power or some other State-wide issue. That an up-State leader should come to Ne wYork City and attempt to play in the transit game is actually ridiculous." This statement came as somewhat of a surprise today in view of the fact that it was made by a man who is one of Speaker Machold's strongest backers for. the Republican nemination for Governor in 1924. Speaker Machold, it is pointed out by the New York County leaders, made his first mistake at the dinner given in his honor last Friday night, when he devoted an unusual amount of time to transit.

He made his second error, the leaders say, by sailing into Smith on transit at Bryant Hall night before last. A number of the leaders got up and walked out of the meeting when Mr. Machold attempted to play through the longest and strongest suit the A Democrats hold--transit. The fact that this adverse comment on Mr. Machold's first speaking trip to New Yor kcomes from men who are doing their best to prime him for the next Gubernatorial campaign, may possibly be explained as "constructive criticism." The G.

O. P. leaders cannot help but feel a bit ashamed as they witness the tacle of Mr. Machold refusing to take up the thrice-flung challenge to debate with Al Smith. They are glad to see that Mr.

Machold is avoiding the possibility of getting himself any further involved in the transit controversy, but they cannot understand why he stepped into it at all. At his home in Watertown today Mr. Machold stated that "no useful purpose could be served" by a bate with Governor Smith. When informed that Mayor Hylan was contemplating a trip through the Republican strongholds up-State to campaign wits his transit issue for the election of a Democratic Assembly next year the Speaker said: "Fine. We will be glad to see him in Jecerson County." The Mayor.

it is pointed out, may. be preparing himself for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1924 should Al Smith not be a candidate. Should Machold and Hylan be pitted against each other for Governor of New York State the Republican leaders say it would be well for Mr. Machold to have some other issue besides transit on which to fight. PEACE SOCIETY URGES HARDING TO ISSUE CALL TO NATIONS Washington, May 19-The American Peace Society urged President Harding 1 in a resolution adopted at its annual meeting yesterday to call a conference of all nations to consider modifications of international law and to promote an independent International Court of Justice.

The Society defends its proposed court as "one to which all civilized states shall of right have direct access to the end that justifiable disputes may be settled in accordance with the principles of law and John D. Jr. Gives Famous Lincolniana to Brown Providence, R. 1., May 19-John D. Rockefeller Jr.

has given to the John Hay Library of Brown the famous MeLellan collection of Lincolniana. Mr. Rockefeller is A member of the Brown Class of 1897. The McLennan collection numbers more than 3.700 volumes and pamphlets and, in all, totals 6,000 pieces. Special Dishes and Recipes for all ocdasiona are included The Eagle Household Manual a and Cook Book.

Just published. Eagle offices. department stores, news stands and dealers, 25c; by mail 800. -Adv. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET THREE CENTS.

NEW BALKAN WAR FEARED IF CREEKS LAUNCH ATTACK With Park Commissioner Harman approving the acceptance of Cerritsen Basin Park, the gift to the city nearly six years ago by made Frederic B. Pratt and the late Alfred T. White. Mayor Hylan came out today against the acceptance unless the deed can be modifled so that there is "no strings tied to it," as the Mayor put it. Adrian Van Sinderen, one of the executors of the estate of Alfred T.

White, stated to The Eagle that no strings were attached to the gift of Gerritsen Basin to the city, A sum of $72.000 was included with the gift of land for the purpose of acquiring certain adjacent properties. According to Commissioner Hirshfield. the land wanted is worth more now. It is understood that the donors of the park property did not make the gift conitional on the acquisi- tion of rights of way, but merely indicated that the givers were un- able to present the city with ancient rights of way. A committee of the Board Estimate, in 1920.

reportthese rights were of small tinancial The consequence. it Mayor was asked today whether he had read the report 011 the park submitted to him by missioner of Accounts David Hirshfield, who made personal inspection of the 100 acres of gift land about two years ago. Hirshfield recommended that the city "go slow" in taking over the land because it would cost something like $1,000,000 to "All in" the marshy portion of the tract for the benefit of land speculators who, he declared. had bought up the land adjacent to the proposed park. "Yes," said the Mayor, "I have read Commissioner Hirshfeld's report and it has been referred to the Corporation Counsel along with the deed to the Pratt and White land." The deed and agreement covering the transaction has been in the Mayor's office for six years awaiting Mayor Hylan's signature.

"I tell you." the Mayor continued. "that the deed is bunk, pure bunk. It doesn't gave the city anything except a chance for a big "Then have accepted the conclusion of Commissioner Hirshfeld's report that there is 'a string tied' to the Pratt and White gift?" "There is a string tied to it," Mayor Hylan responded. "I have had a man in whose legal acumen I have the utmost confidence go over the deed carefully and he tells me that it is full of flaws in so far as the city's interests are concerned. It doesn't give the city anything.

That whole deed is nothing but bunk." The Mayor would not go into particulars. To further questions his answer was, "I have referred the deed to the Corporation Counsel." "Gerritsen Basin Park," curiously enough, already is laid out on the city map. Nobody ever dreamed that there was any danger of the Pratt and White gift. worth nearly $400,000, being rejected by the city. But that is the situation today.

The donors also deposited $72,000 in cash with the City Chamberlain for the purchase, or acquisition under condemnation proceedings, of additional land to round out the park grounds, particularly for the purpose of annexing to it the privately held property nearly. surrounding Gerritsen's Basin, an historic sheet of water which with little expense could be transformed in a park lake. The Pratt and White gift was offcially accepted by the Board of Estimate in the Mitchel administration on Nov. 2. 1917, but before Mayor Mitchell corld sign the deed and agreement accompanying it he went ot of office.

The delay in the signing or these docments by Mayor Hylan has been attribted right along to "little technical difficities" that had to be straightened ot before the transaction cold be consmmated. This is the first time that alleged flaws in the deed have been given as a cause for thrther delay and possible rejection of the gift. Harman Favors Park. Park Commissioner John N. Harman yesterday stated that he believed the city should take over Gerritsen Basin.

He said: "Boro President Riegelmann and I have asked the Board of Estimate to acquire the Sheepshead Bay traction he half said. a "That block of property the Gerrit. runs sen Basin: land. They should be joined up. "The city ought to get all the waterfront property it can before building shuts the public off the bays and water.

places fringing our aries. could put in two public courses. baseball diamonds. boating basins and fit up a wonderful park for the public on that land. The Sheepshead Bay tract includes the old Sheepshead Bay race track.

It is a fine place for a park. "If the city delays, housing will invade the land make the cost of acquisition high, perhaps prohibitive. If the two parks could be joined would mean the city had title to the waterfront from Ocean ave. to the end of Flatbush ave. extension.

Those parks must be developed in the future. "The Sheepshead Bay tract could be assesed on the whole city without making any one suffer through its purchase. And that would not interfere with the city's debt limit. The Gerritsen Basin tract, of course, is a gift. "It seems to me that this is the city's last chance to entrench itself on the waterfront, where the public will perhaps be keener to indulge in recreation a few years from now than even at present.

We must look ahcad." FRANCE WILL SEND 20,000 MORE MEN INTO RUHR ZONE Matin Says Plan Is Largely to Increase Exploitation of Occupied Territory. Paris, May 19--The Army of Occupation in the Ruhr is to be reinforced by another 15,000 or 20,000 men, says Le Matin. It has been decided, the newspaper asserts. to proceed to a still more complete exploitation of the occupied territory, and consequently the railroads must be closely guarded to prevent the escape of coke and coal. Le Matin adds that at a moment when fresh conversations may be opened among the Allies it is more necessary than ever to be able to demonstrate the solidity, productivity and durability of the French occupation, heavy loss in prestige in the relase of the Irish deportees and the Liberal and Labor newspapers are calling loudly for the resignations of Home Secretary Bridgeman and the other ministers concerned.

No strong Conservative government seems possible without the help of Austen Chamberlain, Sir Robert Horne, Lord Birkenhead and other statesmen who left the coalition with. Lloye George; but the possibility that these men will join the government seums as fit: distant as ever. With Parliament adjourned for the Whitsintide recess and with most of the Ministers going to the country for the holiday, there is a complete lull in poutics. Even Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, has left London, indicating that the Government is not immediately anxious despite the of relations with Russia. However.

Ramsay Macdonald. leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party. who was scheduled to go to Hamburg to attend a conference on Monday, is remaining in London to watch the course of events. Under other circumstances spect lation over the consequences of the Prime Minister's illness would 111- doubtedly have been more active. Terrific Storm Sweeps Lombary Plains, Italy; Hailstones Ruin Crops London, May 19 (By the Asso.

ciated Press) Terrific storm raged over the plains of Lombardy yesterday, particularly in the Province of Bergams, says a Central News Dispatch from Rome today, The rains changed to hail, which fell violently and covered many tracts of land to a considerable depth. The damage to crops, says the message, is estimated at tens of millions of lire. PEKING REGIME MAY ABANDON CAPTIVES TO FATE Regards Bandits' Demands as Excessive and Threaten. to End Parley. Peking, May 19 the Associated Press)-Telegrams to the Chinese from Tsao Chwang, near which 15 foreign captives ale held by the mountain outlaws of Shantung, indicate that the Government representatives are on the point of abandoning negotiations for the release of the hostages, because of the bandites' extravagant demand.

(By Cable to the Brooklyn Eagle and Phila. Ledger; Copyright, 1923.) Shanghai, May 19-Letters from the captives declare that conditions are horrible. They sleep on mud floors, are moved from place to place, find the lice intolerable and fear dysentery or typhoid. Tre writers ask why the negotiations go so slowly and beg their parents or friends to relieve them. Leon Friedman, writing brother from the bandit's "camp says: "We have no bedding or cooking utensils and no cots.

We are sleeping on the floor, on dirt like pigs. The way we live is terrible. am afraid sickness wl1 soon set in. Do not be optimistic, as our lives are still endangered. I do not believe we will be released for several weeks, if not months.

"I do not like the fake publicity about our hourly release which is creating undue optimism and causing a lac kof interest and slackness by the public authorities in our behalf. Our condition is serious. Every pressure should be brought on the Chinese authorities to negotiate our immediate release. I do not, think we can stand this for Very long, and I advise the papers to stop printing fake news, as they are doing our cause considerable harm. Peking, May 19-The bandit situation is becoming graver, threatening to spread over the greater portion of the province and endangering other foreigners than the present captives.

The bandits have issued a proclamation calling on all other bandits and unpaid soldiers to join in foreing the Peking Government to yield to their most extreme demands or fight out the whole issue involving their unpaid salaries and dismissals from the a army. Bandits reported to number 8.000 in Shantung are in favor of arousing the people of the province and ousting the present officials. The Shantung Governor, Tien, has been removed from the negotiating commission and is being replaced by Yang-Iteh and Kuo Tai-Tsang, an uncle of the present bandit leader, Bandits Issue Deft. Tsao Chaung, May 19-The bandits have isued the following proclamation: a suitable locality is allotted for our occupation we will not release the froeigners. We know the foreigners are reliable while our government and its troops are absolutely unreliable.

If we are treated with consideration we shall be a benfit to the locality and will not disturb the country folks as the troops do." Tientsin. May 0. Berube, recent captive of the Shantung bandits who was released to carry the outlaw's ultimatum to the Chinese Government. is on his way to Peking with the message. It is said the bandits threaten to shoot two American and two British captives unless the Government troops are withdrawn from the vicinity of the Paotzuku Mountain stronghold by next Tuesday, It is believed here that the Suchow bandits have upwards of 500 Chinese captives in their Paoazuku stronghold.

The place has been used as headquarters for brigands for years. The bandits are described as most anxious to obtain a guarantee that their terms will be met by the Chinese Government from Roy Anderson. an American well versed in Chinese ways, who has made two trips into their headquarters. This, however, is held to be impossible, and, moreover, the Consular Corps at Tsaochwang desires that the negotiations be conducted entirely by Chinese officials. Athens Rushing Men and Munitions to the Front.

Allies Alarmed. NiH. (By to the Brooklyn Eagle and Phila. Ledger; Copuright, 1923.) Constantinople. May 19-Although Constantinople would be the city most critically affected it the Greeks launched a Maritz offensive, the persistent war talk in Athens and Latsanne is having little more effect here than rain on a duck's back.

TurkIsh circles especially refuse to take the Greek threats seriously. The tendency of foreigners here is to over -minimize the danger, perhaps due to hearing the cry of "Wolf!" so often and the belief that the Greek leaders must realize they are bound to be defeated worse than they were before and that the Allies would be forced to prevent an offensive which would make their position 011 the Straits extremely delicate. A Greek attack would mean that the Turks would demand to be allowed to throw an army corps across the Bosporus. If the Allies complied their position here would become untenable ani the Turks probably would occupy Western Thrace and probably start A Balkan conflagration. If the Allies refused they would have to fight the Turks here and in Syria and Mosul.

But. though a war seems logically impossible, it is the impossible which often happens here. If the Greeks are bluffing, they are acting the part extremely well by rushing munitions and reinforcements to the front. Secretary Hoover's special representative, Professor Golder, has arrived here from Athens, where he interviewed several ministers. When he asked them it there would be a war all answered in the affirmative, one saying.

"God grant ITALIAN CROWN PRINCE TO SEE HEAVYWEIGHTS FIGHT FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Milan, May 19-Crown Prince Humbert has arrived here to attend the heavyweight championship fight Sunday between the present titleholder, M. Vanderveer of Holland, and Erminio Spalla of Italy. The Prince was given a warm public reBotoh fighters have finished their ception. most strenuous training and are on edge for the battle. Vanderveer is much larger than Spalla, but the lat.

ter's compatriots believe he has a chance to win. Georges Carpentier, former holder of the title, has arrived with a view, it is understood. of seeking a mater with the winner. SHIP COMPANIES SILENT ON CUNARD'S STAND ON LIQUOR French Line Official Maintains That American Law Will Be Obeyed. The big foreign passenger steamship lines today refused to reveal whether they contemplated following the lead of Sir Ashley Sparkes, managing director at New York for the Cunard line, who plans to male passengers sign up for the amount of liquor they want on the westward journey and fears at same time the that the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, biggest ships of his fleet, will be forced to sail eastward bone dry.

The French line, which faces the problem of a violation of French law in sailing dry or the violation of American law in sailing wet, is marking time, waiting for the Treasury regulations of enforcement. "We will obey the law," said 0. R. Cauchois, advisory general of the line. "We have nothing else to do.

As Sir Ashley Sparks said, the matter of arrangement for storage of liquor is a subject of diplomatic negotiation between governments. We do not know what we will do when the regulations are sent to us, for we do not know what they will say. No matter what hapgens, the American law will be observed." The American head of the Cunard line returned yesterday from England on the Aquitania. De declared his line would not resort to the undignified expedient of liquoring station outside the three-mile limit. At the same time, he indicated that the line would put responsibility for the smuggled liquor up to the passengers themselves.

He sketched a plan which might be adopted. whereby a westward passenger would pay for the amount of liquor he expected to consume at the time he bought his ticket. Anything left over could be thrown overboard at Ambrose Channel Lightship, or sneaked in at the passenger's risk. He saw no hope for a moist eastward journey. The International Mercantile Marine, which comprises the White Star Line, the Red Star Lines the American Line and the Atlantic Transportation Line, had no comment to make, it was stated at the offices.

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