The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 1

oy . . » ° 5 : ¥ ( ) asis VOL. LX. NO. 21,363—DAILY. (The New ¥ tm “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 1920, by The Press Publishing ‘ork World) NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 3, 1 “Circulation Books 920. Open to All.’ 12 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS MARIE AN U.S. MUST SLASH EXPENSES OR BORROW BILLION MORE on Mere Trimming of Appropria-, FANNIE BRICE, tions Won’t Avert Need WIFE OF MISSING of Bond Issue. MAN IN BOND CASE. | | TIME TO “SLAUGHTER.” | Rest of World Broke, and We | in Danger, Says | Mondell. By Martin Green. | (Special Staff Correspondent of The) Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—Leaders | of both parties in Congress have | come to the view of The Evening World, which is that unless cuts of apprépriations partments are made on a basis ap- proaching assassination of many new projects involving the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars, sl heroic restrictions are Amposed upon activities of the bureaus and depart- ments required in the actual function- | ing of the machinery of government, | there is no way of avoiding a bond\ issue in excess of $1,000,000,000 or the imposition of extra taxes to that | amount a year from this time, when the appropriation bills for 1921-1922 shal be before the House and the| Senate. | The budget system has not been adopted, and even its most enthusias- tic advocates do not claim that it wi in iteelf, bring about economy in gov- ernmental expenditures. Even though the budget sytem be adopted at this! session it will not go into effect until | for Government de- RETAIL MEAT MEN WARNED BY PALMER | TO REDUCE PRICES| next year, Here is the situation: | Saving next will not do any] food, The saving must be accom-|Must Meet Cuts Made by Chicago Plished this year, by this Congress and the amounts trimmed from t demands of the bureaus and depart- ments thus far do not measure up to | Wholesalers or Attorney General Will Act. CHICAGO, Feb the necessity for not only putting the | STAIL meat dealers have Government on a short money allow- been warned by United ance but starving it States District Attorneys Representative Frank W. M@ndell] ¢yat they must reduce their prices ot Wyoming, majority leader, who] as the wholesale prices drop, oF announced two months ago that the} submit their books to investiga- appropriations demanded by the de- tion by Federal ents. his partments and bureaus for next year was revealed he United must be cut to the extent of from] gtates Attorney ( Palmer $1,000,000,000 to $1,250,000,000 if the] while en route to Topeka, Kan, country is to be saved from a bond “The price of meat uas been issue or additional taxes of over a falling for three months, but the billion, admits, in view of the demands! retailers have not reduced their which are being put forward every] prices, declaring that their sup- day, that his estimate too low.| plies were old stock purchased at He also admits that it is going to take the hardest kind of work to en- force economy to the extent he has outlined in his speeches to the House because influences which would bene- fit by Government extravagance con- sequent upon maintaining the various ase, departments bureaus on a war PUBLIC BUYS FISH footing ar ‘ selves felt. REJECTED BY ARMY G. 0. P, LEADER GIVES EVENING : House Committee Told Salmon WORLD CREDIT. Packers Made $13,000,000 With higher pr said Palmer, “The old stocks should be exhausted by this time and unless the price to the consumer comes down goon we will look into the questions, of dealers’ profits, have to and bessinning to make thei svening World,” said) Mr, day, “is doing one of the “The Mondell te most praiseworthy things ever at-/ Aid of Department of Agriculture. cpmopted, by a newapaner in sneeay ers WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—Charges ing to bring home to th ople the) nat canned salmon which the War financial status of the country and] pepartment rejected during the war .also in making plain to members of | was sold to the American public by Congress that a powerful influence] the canneries at a profit of $13,000,000 after it had been assed by the De (Continued on Page Seven.) | partment of Agriculture's Bureau of mv Chemistry were made, to-day before a a House Committee infestigating army NEW BRITISH TANK food purchases by D, E, Rennett, ins S 20-MILE SPEED. | ‘isto for, the, committe HA - | Mr. Bennett said the department e - rejected the salmon, which was the y > on the 918 pack, eca U t had ant HENDON: 2 suse [or was otherwise defective, The pi army estimates > he House a lhe testified, conteaded that the of Commons to Win r| feenitance a ihe Churehill tary. of fe mis meee tn: fFode Op B ELAN A Be 4008 asked {1 f yo coming year. [experts agreed with them | Bofo! sad ‘hureh wed a Om = “white the catimat DIES IN BURNING PLANE He su | was c a ad ow tb ” 1 Army Aviator Me Death In} long nger of ¢ nas | Pall In Te | tions using this Rea re oat a st | Churchill “also reveuted tish | on rail hour, . ed here when his alr. | miles an A was killed vo! RESTAURANT, plane fell 1,200 feet afte uddenly Special ed Re Monday, Feb, 23, 1920; bursting into flames Small steek, French | fried | poiatoes, | Oe; stad | Corey was twenty-eight years old. (a, Mic. “itta “door, World Buildiag.—adn,” His home was in Chicago, ra \SHE KEPT UP HOME.| | —— |Blaze Starting in “Big Bill” ARNSTEN SEARCH NOW WORLD WDE WE DEFENDS HM Alleged “Master Mind” in Bong Theft Plot Had No Money, She Says. eee ee | Housekeepers Guide Many Through the Smoke-Filled Halls to Safety. GIRL PHONES ALARM, Fannie Brice Sure Charge Is! Edwards’ Room Destroys Mistake or Frame-Up His Princeton Trophies by Foes. cena — |. A few minutes after flames burst | The search for “Nicky” Arnstein,! from the room of ‘Big Bill" alleged “master mind” in the plot to| Rdwards, Internal Revenue Collector, steal $5,000,000 of securities in Wall! at 3 A. M the 400 Street, to-day developed into one of| guests of the Marie Antoinette Hotel, the biggest man-hunts in years. to-day, most of All) at 67th Street and Broadway, were ports are watched, cabled requests | fleeing to the lobby, by elevators and| for his arrest have been sent to Eu- ropa, and he and in sections where friends might | 2nd canarias, stairs, in various degrees of undress, arrying children, dogs, cats, parrots being sought in Cuba attempt to conceal him. It is reported that a well-known 2, which is on the eighth floor of the : ital obi eight-story section of the hotel, Broadway sporting man on intimate) Jen ine tire started. ‘The new sec- terms EN Tat ee veer in| tion on 67th Street is twelve stories volved tn the bods thet, and 1 W989) 1, ia simon exclusively @ tamily learned that the police suspect a man |)" tt under surveillance of giving misin-|POey a nent watch: formation about Arnstein so he would . h to escape and may |™2" and elevator operator, saw the Hee Suber anger "¥ | blaze shoot out of Edward's room ty eee anen ttorney for the Na. | ‘Ward the rear courtyard, he tele- BOLE eeore eater ney fOr Cae NSS | phoned: 'G,-d7 pennarts,. the night aes rie ha cae we aa | clerk, There were twenty-five guests biter iad bah bie bat ;| on the top floor of the old section, curities, will ask Federal Judge Hard | j,quging A. L. Strauss, a broker, in feria owe for po on ey room 85; Harry Rosenburg, a thtatri- threé safe depos je Fe cal producer, in 84; John A, Hart- tne Dams of Peonlenucsi we oer | ford, President tithe Atlantis and stein, and a principal in the Ziegfeld | pacitic Tea Company, in 83, and W. mania Pepiic L. Slanner, broker, in 80. He also will ask for an order to The instant Night Clerk Lennartz examine Miss Brice and Joseph! got the word hg told Miss Alice Kane, | Gluck, the latter a messenger now the telephone operator, to notify the held in $100,000 bail in connéction Suests. Mrs. E& B. Onslow, the housekeeper, and Lucy Moore, her as- | sistant, were sent to the burning floor to assist the guests. Tho flames were so hot and the smoke so thick on the eighth that the men and women guests had with the bond theft plot. « Miss Brice, who played her part 4 sual in the Frolic Saturday night, is standing loyally by her husband. She has employed Moses H. Grossman of House, Grossman & Vorhaus to look after her interests. to wrap towels about their faces to MISTAKE OR “FRAME-UP,” WIFE | reach the stairs and elevators, The INSISTS housekeeper and her assistant went She declares the charges against her husband a mistake, or an attempt of enemies to “frame” him. She says her hustand’s name is Jules W. Arn- stein, bt that they have been living under the name of Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Arnold in a handsomely furnished right in the thickest of it to aid the guests, Besides the two elevators running regularly at that time of night, four others were started, There was some confusion in getting the guests to safety because after being notified by eight-room apartment in the La|phone they dropped their recoivers Grange, No. 1 West 83d Street. They | and the telephone girl did not know discarded the name Arnstein, she| how many had escaped, said, because it the one under By the time that firemen, called by which her husband was arrested be- fore their marriage, two years ago, Miss Brice has been on the stage ten years and is known in every large city in the country, She has a dress- making establishment in West 724 Street, and said the income from that telephone and an alarm sent from a street box, arrived the lobby was filled with pe, women and children and ail varleties of pets. Under costly furs could be seen bare ankles, night- dresses and pajamas, The dogs, cats and birds seemed as badly frightened as their owners. Among those who came down trom (Continued on Second Page.) PARIS PROPOSES TO TAX SERVANTS AND PIANOS, TOO atanee tamed Firemen under Deputy Chief Dough- FreneM Capital Intends to Levy On| erty had the biaze under control with- g etalite ya in half an hour, after it had destroyed All “Luxuries” to M Mr, Edwards's room and spread to the Deficit. rooms of Mr. Rosenburg and Mr. § PARIS, Feb, |ner, causing $25,000 damage, | ; : that b: on tapestries, car- HB City of Paris, having a |{98 "Bat by water on tapestries, cas I deficit of nearly $100,000,000, is planning novel taxation hotel were David Belasco, Judge Au- gustus Van Wyck and Mrs, James W. Osborne. A few «ick persons re- to be moved, an- pets and other furnishings, There is no way to determina how to pay the deficit within tt the fire started. Mr. Slanner said waa six weeks ago his home at Larch The threat to tax pianos is re- | Moat Park was burned, and he and vived, the rate proposed being Mra, Blanner bat escaped with francs yearly for upright pianos | thelr lives, and having another firg Rnd 60 dvante for Gther kinas [onsen #0 soon mado it Look as if Pianos ‘used for giving instruc. | ey wer ut of Luck, ‘ tion will be ¢ The fire spoiled “B Bill's birth heir ax on servants [day Party which was scheduled for is propo! This would begin | t-Misht (he is forty-four, ho eon with 40 fry a year for the first | Mded)s ‘His room a wrech , naidse nt and 84 francs-for the | Water and fi His dress suit, w first manservant, the rate hung on a statue of Ad w ng with add ) | ined. " hecuan that any one Princet 4 shupclesn aay nies: . to him omy > sloyees of the Street Cleanin france yearly Dep ment wheh he w ‘ Anis “a sioner Jooks like an exploded shrapni ‘Tell your grocer you want genuine ported Pompelan Olive ll and take uo otber.— adv shell Many of his Princeton footbs trophies were destroyed. i WOMEN SAVE HOTEL GUESTS AT MARIE ANTOINETTE FIRE | “Big Bin" was not in his room, No. | floor | == | their suites in the new section of the | ceived tmmediate aid and did not have | | ud- & |\“ABSOLUTELY FALSE” | CABLES McGRAW ON STONEHAM FIGHT. Wires Evening World There’s No Truth in Story of Split With Giants’ Owner, HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 23. Sporting Editor, Evening World, New York: Report absolutely false. ‘ McGRAW. ‘The whove is the answer from John McGraw, er of the Giants, to The Evening World's cable query on the rumor that and Charley A. oneham, owner of the New York ball Cli had engaged in a fis- battle in Havana recently, the outgrowth of which was that Me- |Graw would quit the management of | the team The rumor, which had gained wide irculation here, reached New York via Prisco, It was based on a state ment made there ‘by Jose Mendolos, |a Cuban painter, Mendolos said that McGraw and Stoneham engaged in violent quarrel at a Havana roof- garden, which ended in the exchange of punches and knockdown. dither you or L must quit the | Giants this year,” was the ultimatum of MoGraw, as related by Mendolos. (For details of report page.) DUKE QUITS FRANCE | OVER GABY’S DEATH mand \t | tic see. sporting |Dancer's Sweetheart Comes Here | for Career, as Paris Holds | Nothing for Him Now. Returning to carve out his career in America because France holds nothing | for him since Gaby Deslys died, the Duc | de Crussal, son of the Duchess de Uzes | ana of one of the oldest and ic est famities in France, arrived to-day on the French liner La ‘Two months ago, liner La France cam by and the Duke were both pass » and their devotion attracted much comment. Gaby shortly afterward returned to Fran’ and when she became iill she cabled th Duke, who rushed i remained with her until th day after her death he sailed again for America, He brought with him, fulfill ing Gaby's dying wish, the choicest peari from her 1,400,000 franc necklace and tho silken kimona iin which she died scior when the French ris and end. ‘Dhe “Here was a beautiful soul,” he said. “The world never knew of the worth while things she did."* |$1,415,000 FOR AIR ROUTE ACROSS U. S. Asks | Senate Committee Repor New York-San Fran Mail Service. WASHINGTON, | $1,415,000 for | YorkSan F Feb A fund of establishment of a new aco air mail route was | included in the Post OMice Appropriation | bill orted by the Senate Post Office Committee to-day ® House in passing the biW struck all appropriations for the alr mail | _— | CANADA IN FIGHT | AGAINST DRY LAW| | Members of Parliament Want Three- Fifths Vote Required to Put Prov- inces in Prohibition Column. as re out | | OTTAWA, Ont, Feb While the overnment has not indicated any in tention of amending the prohtbition legislation p 1 in the dying ‘days of t ne fall sex that . there is a strong prob- | ate members will do so, As 1h stands, It As possible for any province to practically bone dry If, fi a referendum, a majo: of the} elect Thi amend the law at Whitne , to requ D TRAYED BUREAU, ‘ W Hhncidin i re | 4000. | Money "order and. travel “Aart, ay and re) checks “for TOINETIE HOTEL FIRE ROOTS WILSON'S REPLY TO THE PREMIERS HAS AREAL PUNCH To Say in Effect They Must Choose Between Himself and the Senate. \N APPEAL TO EUROPE. Goes Beyond Fiume Matter and Outlines Entire ‘ Foreign Policy. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Ev ning World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘ight, 1920).—Something critical is involved which the United ment is preparing to send to Great 23 (Copy- indeed the note in States Govern- Britain, France and Italy with ref.’ erence to the Fiume question, It involves more than thé mere controversy over the territory on the Adriatic, It defini- tion of American foreign policy for the immediate future. It will prae- tically give the Allies the choice of regarding the Senate or the Presi dent as the true representative of American thought. Not in so many words, of cour: but back of the threat which President Wilson made of with- drawing the treaty was a recog- nition of the fact that the Allies were beginning to despair of rati- fication by America of the peace treaty and membership in the League of Nations, and were get- ting ready to return to a settle- ment of European affairs in their own way and without regard to the principles on which the armi stice with Germany and Austr: Hungary was based. ALLIES AFFECTED BY ATTI- TUDE OF THE SENATE. The Allies h seen the flout the President. They hay both parti the treaty contr engaged in a p election contest and America or less indifferent tho sores loft Treaty. Fiume is only one of thi sores. Russia is another, The decision to reopen commercial re- lations with the Soviet was taken without consulting Americ involves a ve versy pel widential a whole more to the healing of by the Peace open And the truth is the Allies have absolutely reversed the position they expressed in thair note of Dec. 9 on They are that expediency re- the Fiume coming to believe controversy ———= 400 ARMED U.S. AGENTS TOJONN ~WMGHIGAN “WHISKEY REVOLT Washington Orders Drastic Action, but State’s Attorney Says Men Whose Wine Was Seized Have |, Been Acquitted of Violating Pro- hibition Laws. CHICAGO, Feb, 23.—Major A. V, Dalrymple, Federal Prohibition Commissioner for the Central States, received word this afternoon that telegraphic authorization for him to lead an armed expedition of United” | States agents into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been sent from | Washington, : Dalrymple then gathered thirty picked agents here today prep Aras tory te “cleaning up” Iron County and arrest county officials who are said to have interfered ‘with a Federal liquor raid last week. “PLANK EXPECTED FROM DENORATS quette, Mich. to issue warrants for | the arrest of the Tron County Prose- State Convention Likely to Jrge Repeal of State’s Pro- Slate Constabulary Major Dal- ting Attorney, two deputy sheriffs and the chief and captain of police hibition Ratification. i 'd, ils pian of campaign is to plesce nd oa tron County from at Iron River, a mining village, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct the Prohibition law, STATE CONSTABULARY Wikig JOIN U. 8. AGENTS. As soon as warrants are issued the Federal agents from here will go to Noganee, Mich, where they will bo joined by A hale troop of the Michi- aple * ‘he north and stamp out what hi oy oo” , a @ told ALBANY, N Fob, 23 (United! National Prohibition Commissioner Press.)—Political interest of the State mer was n “open revolt” against 1 authority Should the report indicate a serious. ation, Major Roy ¢, Vandercook, head of the-eonstabulary, will start for the upper peninsula immediately, « despatch from Lansing, Mich, suid, ron County hus been one of the Worst spots in the upper peninsula,’* said Commissioner Woodworth in lansing. He charged that some locat officials there have been lax in their efforts to enforce the prohibition law, MORE CHARGES MADE AGAINST. centres on Albany this,week, with the unoffic 1 Democratic convention here ‘The Now York Democrats are to adopt a St whieh may National te platform, forecast the attitude of the convention on many big guestions, Albert of Water town, will be the temporary and per- nent chairman, and keynote speech, The committee Frances Cullen, will deliver th on resolutions, headed by Henjamin PROSECUTOR. Wites, of Syracuse, in to meet on] 4 short time ago, acconiing to Wednesday afternoon to prepare the ve »mimissioner Woodworth, the Prose platform iting Attorney of fron Co 4 Democratic leaders, while cautious] asiceg County, asked for a detachment of State po« on the prohibition question, expressed [rice to aswist bim in olewain : tho belief that the convention willl iicit tanor tratfie. Tt is up the undoubtedly back up the stand of a he troops were sent and in a few hours Governor Smith and insert a plank tie ore Sour ae several quires any kind of a settlement that |ealling for repeal of the State's ratifl- | 70 And. confiecs tee Will satisfy Italy. As for the Jugo-|oation and submission of the question| 4 parrels of liquor, According ta 8 ®% well, America isn't ging the}of ratification to a referendum Cotnmisetahar Woodworth, with economic assistance a for, Con-| No question will be raised as to the| {wal of the State troopers was gress turned down President Wilson's] constitutionality of ihe amendment, it|!"@? asked by the prosecutor, request. for $150,000,000 to aid thel was added, M. 8. McDonough, county attorney Central Bur n republics and of-| The “Big Four," it appeared to-day, | f" [ron County, wired the attore fered $50,000,000, will be headed by Gov, Smith, and the| "¢Y seneral of Michigan and Attore ‘The European Governments see the} other delegate from New York City|Y General Palmer to-day, demands United States drifting back to isa will probably be Miss Elisabeth Mar- | 4% Hl and complete investigation tion notwithstanding President Wil-| bury, A woman will also be named the fake storic regarding a pros son’s assurances and the high profes-|as one of the alternat hibition revolt here. McDonough seine The women's organiztion of the] Sid reports of a “prohibition revolt (Continued on Seventh thee.) Democratic party is to hold a convea- | Wé ylutely without foundation. tion here Wednesday afternoon, at ure Having no trowble witly WILSON TO PUBLISH which they will make up their slate} the Naver 1 Iron County," for consideration of the unofficial can-| MeDonoug according to am THE NOTES ON FIUME, |" “nsession 0 tron nie wa hare ea -—--—- h sataiene, vere a utions and are This Will Be Done as Soon as| WHISKEY “JOKE” ag a ae | provision tead Act the Latest One is De | KILLS BOY ON SHIP} «ris Grove, came here livered sen sa a Federal WASHING meanedes A practical trated vgent, but he bad no eres eavarmeat United @tates |'08 mm H 1 three brothera and the En son the Adria ‘ 1 nily 1 contise stion will be made public by Prosi. |°! re Eon y i f wine mada dent Wilson within a few d was | ton Bi SRP aT s i L went out there with stated to-day offi left Nau sai i} eounty of . demanded that The pub an will he mado w - Ase iil \ lent He could DONARNE PS ig shied aovernt wn Koh, 10 some one with a w us noth | ordered the threa a fe eld fae ny . the bos} men r {and took charge of the hole ara tot ae. Wy wine V tok him he'd | w ny 1 will gladly turn it the State Department to-day ave t nic: it be! al | H Mfide representatiya foal approy and officials hoped 1 States would | m Jand, | Gov at have tt on the cables to-night determined ta m DOy abreast: — the Mao am vty “i, "and So fav ay L san learn the Bealeu: et TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and ace! failed to reveal ‘who. gave him thal broters have Hot violated. the pi + bow Ant GOOD DIGESTION makes you (eel Adm, whiskey. hibition law, If they dave we Ab \ e , { : CONSTABULARY 10 SUBDUE