New-York tribune., 1920-10-02
Baltic Forced
Out to Sea by
Gale Off Hook
Sou'easter Hits White Star
Liner as She ComesAbeam
of Lightship; Held in
Quarantine by Congestion
nj. w. Littleton Is Home
Says Time for League Past,
but Wilson Was Right;
&2,OOO,OOO Gold ON Shin

The White Star liner Baltic, from
Liverpool, had tussle off Sandy Hook
thursday night with the southeasterly
gale that sprang up suddenly about
midnight. Captain Hambelton came
abeam the lightship and was prepared
to anchor when the wind came up and
as precaution, he put out to sea.
The big vessel came into quarantine
carly yesterday, but was held at an
anchorage because of congestion at the
White Star piers.
Among the passengers was Martin
W. Littleton, who with his wife had
gone to France to visit the hospital
where his son. soldier of the A. E.
f., had died and to talk with those
who were beside him during his last
hours.
Mr.. Littleton said he had concluded
that the time for adopting the League
of Nations had passed, that the iron
was now too cold to be welded, and
that President Wilson'S illness had
lost for him the greatest opportunity
of his life.
"The nations Of Europe have gone
back to their pre-war conditions" he
said. "Presjdent Wilson's ideas were
feasible at the time of his last visit
to France. | was opposed to the Pres
ldent's views, but my visit abroad has
convinced me that he had clear vision
and that he was right | am also in
clined to the belief of Benjamin Frank
lin that '-he English-sp speaking people
have got to hasg together or hang
separately Anglo-SaXon unity is GER
the English are keenly desirous of it.
WELLER for Housing Court
Lawrence Veiller, secretary of the
National Housing Commission who has
been abroad attending the international
housing conference ir London. returned
with report of his observations, which
he will submit to Washington
81 believe III the appointment of a
court of justice as the only solution of
the housing difficulty" he said 1T
must be court that will sit pcrma-
nently and hear all the questions that
are to be settled. This court may de-
eide what rents are fair and also do
away with various differences in rents
that exist even in apartments that ad-
join each other"
Another traveller was the Rev. Nehe-
mlah Boynton, pastor of the Clinton
avenue Congregational Church of
brooklyn. He was accompanied by his
wl1e and son and the latters wife.
Dr. Boynton had attended the alliance
of churches for international friendship
IN Switzerland. He said that Bishop
Brent, fresh from the Lambeth Confer
ence, made a great bid for church unitv
tie said Cic Bishops utterances were
the oravest words ever spoken by hin,
and mace great impression upon the
conference
Britain, he said, is taking keen in
terest IN the Presidential campaign in
America, and while in London he
heard two Englishmade slogans, one
being Harding and the Home" and
'he other COX and the Cocktail"
Weeks Answers Critics
Justice Barlow S. Weeks. of the Su-
prcme Court of this state and mem
Der of the American Olympic com
mlttee, said that when all the members
returned they would meet and issue
statement relative to the conduct Of
the games and the American contest
ants.
Justice Weeks and other members of
the committee were adversely criticized
by some of the returning athletes. He
said there was justification for some of
the complaints, but the conditions COM
planned of could not have been avoided
Many of the athletes complained of
general conditions aboard the slow
transports that took them to Antwerp
and delayed their training for the
events for which they were entered
Justice Weeks said that if it had not
been for the courtesy of transports cx-
tended by the government America
could not have sent over such large
representation to the games.
The Baltic brought over in her strong
room consignment of gold valued at
S2,000,000.