New Britain herald., 1930-03-19
AMERICANS WORK
 ID SAVE FARLEY
Submit Points for Arbitration in Naval Conference Stalemate

London, March 19 P)-The Amer ican delegation to the naval confer ence, sticking consistently to it's slo- gan never say die," met today to discuss among themselves the Fran co-Italian parity stalemate.
 It was understood that A1nbassa- dor Morrow and Commander Harold Train, technical experts who have been specially working on this situa- tion which threatens to cause at least partial wreckage of the conference. submitted ideas which they thought might afford the basis of discussion between the two European neigh bors.
 Schemes May Die
 It is possible that these schemes will never see the light of day The difficulty is said to be that the Amer jeans could not with propriety volun- teer their services as mediators be- tween Italy and France, although the American delegation is understood to be hoping to be invited to intervene by one or the other of the two par ties.
 Observers say that the big problem now is to get the French and Ital- ians to face each other across the conference table. Neither has budged from its original stand, Italy for na- val parity with France, which France will not concede. What the other delegations now want is to get the French and Italians to discuss any one of numerous schemes which have been figured out as a basis for possible compromise.
 Prime Minister Macdonald and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admir- alty. had lunch at the American headquarters today and it was as- stunned the Franco-Italian situation came under survey. The Americans present were Secretary Stimson, Am bassadors Dawes and Morrow and Senator Reed.
 Flurry Over Report
 During the day there was a furry over a report printed by the Daily Express that there had been breach of harmony over matters connected with the Americana Japanese negotia- tions. The prime minister was repre- scented as having taken Secretary Stimson to task for allowing an al legged misleading impression to cir cuiate that Tokyo was ready to ac- cept a settlement proposition and that there was likelihood of a three power agreement should the Franco Italian problem prove unsolvable.
 An American spokesman charac- terized this as simply foolish" while Prime Minister Macdonald specially directed the British spokesman to deny the story. The spokesman told newspaper men that the report was absolutely and gratuitously false
 Another report circuated by a British news agency that Ambassa- dor Matsudaira had called on Secre- tary stimson to warn him of an im- pending rejection by Tokyo of the American terms and to give notice of Japanese counter proposals also met with emphatic American denial.
 Did Not Discuss Point
 As a matter of fact, it was au- thoritatively stated, it was Senator Reed and not Secretary Stimson who met the Japanese ambassador and they did not discuss the question of Tokyo's approval or disapproval of the Japanese American delegations agreement. They discussed the Fran co-Italian situation, the Japanese be- ing interested from an informative viewpoint.
 Tokyo's reply, is was surmised in American quarters, will be in by the latter part of the week. No surprise will be caused if the Tokyo govern- ment should ask its delegation to try for more S-inch cruisers which, it is forecast, would be refused by the Americans. Tokyo would then De informed and the opinion is express ed in conference circles that the Ja- ianese government would not be ln- clined to push the matter further.