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4 ~s agree A es A LE SN ONG NI Te %. y 1a ey fe i es PLAN BANK SEARCH |HILLQUIT PROTEST. ~_TODAYFOR HIDDEN) MORE TIME KILLING ~ARNSTEN WEALTH IN SOCIALIST TRIAL hes Over Debs Charges— Refuses Papers Without Subpoena, By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb, 24.—Morris Hillquit and Judge Sutherland had a tilt when Swann Calls Wife. the “trial” of the five guapended So- ce clalist Assemblymen wag resumed ‘A potition filed with Judge August- | 0-day, over Attorney Seymour Sted- us Mf. Hand in the Federa! Court | man’s cross-examination by the Judge by Edwara H. CI receiver in|in reference to some of the evidence bankruptcy for Arnstein, al-|in the Debs trial which he said was jeged “master mind” in the $5,000,000 | not in the record or the appeal. He vond theft plot, asks pérmission to| referred to the mpeech, for, one thing, ° examine to-day Fanny Brice, wife of| of Kate Richards O'Hare, who said: and “other persons,” and] “Any person who enlisted in the ‘that the petitioner has reason | army of the United States frr service (© believe that Arnstein has money |in France would be used for fertilizer and securities in a number of banks./and that is all that he was good for.” Further on the petition gives a list} Mr. Hillquit took exceptions to of institutions where it is believed] Judge Sutherland's question as “to the much wanted man did his bank- whether Judge Wade at the woman's ing. It includes the Colonial Bank, | trial refused to allow a witness to be » the U. 6. Mortgage and Trust Com-| sworn who was ready to say that she paay, the Madison Gafe Deposit Cam-| 414 not use the words with which she ) pany, the Hquitable Trust Company! was charged in the indictment. the PaciTic Bank. This statement was attributed to ‘The petition aiso asserts that Fanny | nes in a speech at Canton, O. Mr. hae an account in the Bxcel-| riquit protested “in the interest of stor Gavings Bank under her stage) cconomy of time and orderly pro- name, and adds apis the money OF| cedure” and announced the Goclalists securities may be found under ®NY| wers determined to got through with follow! names: “iw "Arnold, Jaznos Wilfred Adair,|‘@¢ Temainder of the case aa rapidly MeCormick Ames, “Nick” Cohen, “Nick” Borach, Miss or Mrs, Fanny Arnstein, Miss or Mrs. Fanny Ar- r Fanny or Mrs. Fanny Brice.|% allow his colleague, Walter ia the first time that specific | Nelles, to produce for the prosecution | statements have been made regard-#/the record in the O'Hare case, Louis ing the money which the missing|M- Martin, Chairman of the Judiciary Arnstein is reported to have had. Committee, declared he would issue District Attorney Swann and As-|% subpoena for the record and Mr Petition in U. S. Court Asks) C Questioning of Fannie Brice on Accounts. NEW CLUE IN HUNT. Bond Plot Fugitive Now Be- Tieved on Long Jsland— * sistant District Attorney Alfred B.|Hillquit said he would obey tho assisted in serving refreshments to ‘Unger announced this morning that] S4bpoena. they.proposed to call “Miss Brice Judge Sutherland asked Mr. Sted- this afternoon for further man whether, it Judge Wade had re- amination regarding the business trips|Tused to hear a witness in behalt of which her husband is reported to) Mm O'Hare, her counsel would not have made, and which she is quoted} have seen that the fact got into the * as having mentioned in an interview |Fecord. printed yesterday afternoon in The} “I can give you no such assurance Bvening World. as that,” replied ir, @tedman, “I “Mies Brice, when examined under | know Judge Wade too well . osth in my office last Wedmonday,”| Mr. Stedman disclaimed an inten- said District Attorney Swai saia| tion to say Judge Wade had delib- > that Arnstein dad never left her after] @ately barred the testimony, | their marriage. ¢ wish to know it| Attorneys dor the prosecution later she was correctly quoted in yester-|Westloned Stedman concerning the day's World. case of Mrw Rose Pustor Stokes, for “This is an important point, as we} Whom he is counsel, have information from the Gluck| Mr. Stedman got a rise out of Mar- “woya, that they frequently’ visitea|t!t Conboy, of counsel tor the State, | a to mest Arnstein and|Wben he dedured that the specch of Shere turn over to him the proceeds| Wiliam Bross Lloyd at a SocNlist Se the rebiberies.” meeting in Milwaukee on Jan. 12 Mr, Unger aid to-day that the]|191%, was a fine example of wit and District Attorney has issued orders|bumor. Mr. Conboy read part of the for the arrest on sight of a number|speech, which declared that ‘what of men, said to be members of a gang|We want is revolutionary prepared- of confidence men, which formerly|ness. We want a mobilization plan operated in the vicinity of 42d Street,/and an organization for the revolu- bat which has shifted the flekd of its| tion, operations to the neighborhood of} Louis A. Cuvillier of the Judiciary Wall Street, where the merhbers have] Committee was called to order by taken desk root in a number of of-|/Chainman Martin when he pressed a tices, These.men are alleged to have| query after Mr. Hillquit bad assured acted in co-operation with Arnstein.| him he intended to ask the sume At the office of the District Attor-| question later. “ney it was said officials are hopeful] Aigernon Lee, former New Yo of ending the world-wide search for Bie rane and sega vee ee Amnatzin shortly, They believe Arn-| rector of the Rand School, was called stein is on Long island, and orders|i, the mand and delivered a lecture have been issued for a thorough} on socialism. He said force was wearch ‘by the police. not intended when the Socialists in Miss Brice las repeatedly denied! their war proclamation urged workers that she knows the whereabouts of! 1, oppose the war ‘by every means in her husband. She has said that any| 44, power." money she has in banks or safe] ne defense read from the New deposit vaults is the proceeds from) yoy Call to show Socialists had her stage work and her dressmaking | yoo, urged to register for the draft. establishment in West 72d Street. Senator George F. Thompson did She played as usual in the “Mid-| 14, out in an appearance until late night Frolic” last night. She eald to} this morning, much to the disap- reporters: ! pointment of many who antictpated “I have not got three safe deposit) . ively session in the ®enate. ‘The boxes, as the newspapers sald, 1) ovate, r from Niagara had promised RT ee ee ee to make an attack on Speaker Sw: — Te bey to that haa been lost | 2", the handling of the Soclaltat sit Ret Gesathy, and 1 wish the court |*ton in the Assembly. ‘Mr, Thomp- gsoltag lune it would have | announced that he would defer saree San V, Sec his attack until to-morrow morning to make a new key and I could get as iSKATER M’LEAN FAILS AT RECORD “all 1 have in that box is a vanity case, a small bag and a few trivial ar- ticles of jewelry. That's all I have to ay about this, The rest will have to ‘come from my lawyer.” Anmexamination of the prison record of Arnstein at Sing Sitg yesterday disclosed that when he was serving @ American Tries Hard Against Ad- verse Conditions. for World's Mark in Stockhokn. weftence there he had enough in-| STOCKHOLM, Monday, Fe, 23.— fluence to get a choice “trust; berth | Bobby MoLean, the American #kater recently defeated by Oscar Mathiesen fund a quick pardon from former Gov. Whitman. Arnstein arrived at Sing Sing March 18, 1916, after being sen- fenced by Judge Rosalaky to serve two years and ten days for grand larpeny. Bing Sing attendants describe Arn- stein as an affable, clever chap and dresser, They say Fannie Brice uently visited him while he was in a series of raves for tho world's pro- fessional championship, skated here to: day in an effort to create new records for the 600 and 1,000 metre distances His time was 44 3-6 seconds for th 500 metres and 1 minute 83 1-5 seconds for the thousand, Mathiesen holds both records, his time being 43 7-10 seconds and 1 minute 31 4-5 seconds. Molean's attempt was made in face there, as did his sister, Mrs, Wallace 7 oi of a strong wind. and although he Young of Larchmont, failed hw was wiven w xroat round of —— applan by the ctators who had PHILLIPS MADE ENVOY, | fattest,‘ yar tines? tho. AmerTeanes at Se aeslahas beorctarr of aiate ((Urnine thence td se Unite Bhat GAing to the. Netherinade. Yanye ues Concert’ Manager ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The nom- 87,000, {pation of William Phillips, First a: Fugene Yea Bel, siatarit Secretary of Gtate, to be Minis-| oycnestral leader, to-day through Davi er to the Nethertands was sent to the | j, Henate to-day by President Wilson, a Loeiee eee ns “Medicine ve Sloane, his attorney, bega) Supreme Court against Robert BH. with interest alleged to be due various unpald notes, Asp 1 PATA es SO N as possible. | ‘The question was allowed, however. | Previously Mr. FliNquit had refused | for QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT COME suit in| TBs MRS. VINCENT ASTOR _N. Y.-TO.’FRISCO HELPS WASH DISHES AT VICTORY CLUB i MROV ASTOR poor oes |Also Cuts Cake and Serves Cream at Opening of Y. M. C. A. Quarters. Mrs, Vincent Astor cut cake and |dished out ice Am last night a more than 100 men in uniform at No. 9 State Street. Then she helped dry the washed dishes. the debutantes and matrons of socl+ ety who accompanied her aided the regular workers at what was the for- mal opening of the new Victory Ciub of the Y. M. C, A. The club occupies. the third and fourth floors of the building and has deen established as substitute for the Victory Hut that formerly stood in Battery Park. | —_— REVOLT IN SENATE ——RANST ISON | (Continued From First P: 6.) was reached on all points vul Article x On that fateful article, the Demo- crats are inclined to stand on the reservation offered by former Presi- dent Taft which Senator Lodge has rejected, ‘Thus their campaign pro- gramme would be to say to the coun- try that they stood ready to accept the agreement of a bi-partisan com promise conference and a reservation written by a Republican ex-Presi- dent. They coukl hardly be accused then, it is contended by some of the Democrats of blindly following Presi- dent Wilson along obstinate paths of pride, It is the fear that the country may fasten upon Democratic Sena- tors some of the same lame for ob- structing the treaty which so many friends and foes of the treaty hh recently begun to attach to President Wilson himself that is causing indi- vidual Democrats to grow restiess, SENATORS THINK COUNTRY FAVORS RATIFICATION. ‘They feel that the country wants) the treaty disposeq of. They are un- willing to take the responsibility for] obstruction, ‘Two ways suggest) themselves—absolute surrender to} Senator Lodge or insistence on the| programme which Mr, Lodge himself) was ready to approve when the bit-| ter-enders, or irreconcilables, served notice that they would bolt the Lodge | leadership and Republicanism if he| deviated from the origina language lof the reservation on Article Ten | voted on last November | The course of surrender is being] advocated by many newspapers who are anxious to seo the treaty ratified and who think ‘there is more to guined by taking the League with the Lode reservations than iby hav- | ing no League at all. But the Demo. crits ure not altogether sure what| President Wil#an would do if they did surrender. Suppose, for instance, he | jdecided that the Lodge |nullified the purposes of the League | Jand rendered it unworkable and that | ho would not permit his signature to a} the construing |the Senate's to miifieation be reservations went reservations anean | | UP IN THE CAMPAIGN. 1 1| Where would it leave the Demo- can programme? into the The Republican platform in New York State has indorsed a League of Na- tions “with reservations.” ecrats will The matter of responsibility for de- lay will be hard to define, but the ‘movement among the Democrats step toward clarification of the Dem ocratic position ; phasize the d rat Mora for reservations as dieting from Mr, Wilson's long insiste Ice unqualified treaty. render to Senator Lodge not mean much hope for the ratific Mrs, Astor and/ Gives Warning That Situation in press, according to a wireless dispatch from Berlin, includes Renunci | mit to the Russian Soviet Government, | MESSENGER BOY PLANES TO DELIVER MAIL IN 60 HOURS Off Ten Hours May Even Be Cut This Fast Time if Night Fly- ing Proves Successful. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. OSt OFFTCN offictals rushing plang for the New York-San Frageisco airmail Otto Prucger, Assistant ister General, said to-day. A proposed appropriution of $1 415,000 will soon be discussed in the Senate. If passed, the money would be available July 1, ‘The transcontinental route would be the longest in the world, accoming: to Praeger. Double or triple motor Liberty planes will be used, capable of carrying 1,500 pounds of mail each, compared with 400 pounds carried in the New York-Chicago service. | “A letter mailed in New York would be delivered to tho San Francisco Post Office in 691-2 hours,” sald Praeger, “as compared with 901-2 hours by train. The air mail time may be reduced ten hours if night Sying experiments aro successful. We are expert- menting with planes to drop eacks without stopping.” ted as having suported the Republi- Questions of practical politics enter situation in both parties. The Dem- take the same position. get unity of action) lg the first | It will tend to em- to ire of Democ ished | @ on} adoption of the it will not mean gsur- on Article | ‘Therefore, for the present, it will But tion of the peace treaty Itself. | plonata aeated GERMAN PRESS VIEW .:. OF TREATY FIGHT, Senate Does ‘Not (Mean a | Separate Peace. LONDON, Feb. @4.—Tho German! {a lasuing a warning against regarding the latest motions in | the United States Senate as efforts to) cancel the Treaty of Versailles. ‘The warning declares that, although) the motions may show the Genate to be) desirous to be independent of the Ver- sailles treat and may add to the con- fusion already existing among the allied means propose a separate peace. —— POLAND’S PEACE TERMS FOR SOVIET tion of Territory and Recognition of Independence of Baltic States. WARSAW, Feb, o1.—The ment's note to the Allies setting forth | the peace terms Poland proposes to sub- i | | vern- | ia being examined iby the Foreign At- fairs Committee of the Diet. . ‘The Polish demands include renun-| elation by Russia of the territory of Poland's frontier af 1772 and Russtan | recognition of the independence of the Baltic States. Poland declares her interest in te | Ukraine, asks guarantees against Bol- | ahevik propaganda and demands war in- demnities from the Soviet Government, COYNE DEATH NOT DUE TO BEATING. Dr. Shultze Says Injuries Revealed in Autopsy Fail to Prove Murder. third week of the Tuckahoe liveryman, charged the murder of Mrs, Florence began before Justice Vernon, M in the Supreme Court the today, with William J. Fallon, 1 for the accused man, outlining the testimony. whtch the defense pro- posed to present Fallon said the testimony himself, as well as that of Would be used to show that the of Mrs, Coyne was accidental br. Ovto H. Schultz 1 ane sistant to the Distr of New York Gounty, testified that Mrs. Coyne's jaw ‘had not been dislocated nor broken, and said that none of the bruises or marks on ‘her body showed injuries sufficlent to cause her death He declared that it was quite pos- wible that Mrs. Coyne had come to her death in the manner described by the defense. District Attorney Martin questioned the night of the witness to proceed. His motion was denied by Justice Davis The trial of Ernest Frita, with Coyne Davis Rronx of Frita perta, death TORE UP MORTGAGES Admits Keeping Filing Fees trusted Him by Lawyers, and Lost Money Gambling. Vinebnt Wellacher, sixteen, of No, 624 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to a charge of petty larceny o- day, in the County Court, Brooklyn, While employed as a clerk by the law firm of Coombs and Wilson, No, 32 Court Str he was given records of | Mort, n various Occasions to be aken to the Burrogae’s office preparatory Sighs to the ‘Tombs, the eourt room whi ors, whistled to the prisoner ane © MAN WHO OFFERED Realty Operator Pleads Not tons such Guilty—Says ‘He Will Pay Off Claims. William H. Mofmft, one-time million- aire, dealer in guvurban realty, plead- ed not guilty to-day before Judge Rosalsky in the Court of General Sessions on a’ 191% indictment for frand larceny. (He was remanded to the ‘Tombs until to-morrow while the court takes under advisement the mo. | | Senater tion of Moflitt'» attorney, former Magistrate Moses Growwman, who said: “Your Honor, my oltent, if given time, can and rwill pay every dolar of the $60,000 to $100,000 of iis in debtedness, “I move that he be .discharged of this complaint and be permitted to go back to California und make the money to ay his bills. @ have gone into his record so far as { am | ents as the truo destroyers of| ®ble and out of all the millions rep- the treaty, when a large number of Democrats could be promptly exhib- resented by his transactions can dind nothing against him save this one complaint involving a paltry $200." ‘As Moffitt @tepped under guard, to crossing the Bridge of was thrown into confusion by a man anding in his place among the atching his attention and that of everybody elve, cried out: “Moffitt, I'm behind you to the ex- | tent of $100,000 any time you want me!" “Bring that man to the tench!” en- | commanded Judge Rosaktky and the interrupter was marched forward. “What is your name and what does peace | Chis mean?” asked the Court. “Pardon me, Your Honor,” pleaded the stranger, “I thought court was adjourned. My name is Edward Thompson; I am @ friend of the de- ndtunt. “And your business?” na writer of law books,” eald aupson, “the author of Thomp- son's Encyclopedia of Law and other vooks. My home is at Northport, Lit trange procedure for a man of your learning,” commented Judge Rosulsky.S “You should read your own books, I shall accept your ex- planation, but don’ let it happen agnin.” Moffitt talked freely in the District Attorney's office to-diuy on every sub- Ject except Pearl Carpen, the stenog- rapher, Who is said to have gone West with him in August, 1917. He admitted the use of another name in California but declared the first he knew of the indictment was when he picked up a copy of The World sey- eral monthe old. He then left Santa Barbara for San Jose, ‘wihen I was arrested.” he said, was in a fair way to clean up hu dreds of thousands of dollars, Peopie from the Middle West with lots of money are flocking to that part of California and a big boom is on. If 1 get a, chanoe I can pay every dollar owe.” ee FROST CRUEL, SAYS HIS WIFE Counter ‘Chatges Made on Applica- tion for Alimony From Ex- Submarine Boat Head. Accusing his «wife, Rosalind Harring- ton Frost of undue intimacy with a former employee of the Hotel Chelsea, at Atlantle City, Elhu B. Frost, sixty years old, fromer President of the Sub- marine Boat Corporation, appeared be- Vive Chancellor Lewis in Jersey City to-day when the hearing on an ap- plication for alimony and counsel fees began. Mrs. Frost, who ls thirty years old, denies her husband's charges and made the counter-assertions that he had been guilty of cruel treatment and friendly with other women. The Frosts were married on June 18, 1915. In May, 1919 Mrs Reno for her health, which she asserted was shattered by her husband's treat- ment ‘The Ore. sister Mrs that only woman at the Mary Barnshaw, of Garden City, of Mrs, Fro Frost 4 Frost affidavit that ared in her is a drug addict hair and had kicked her. homes, and that he forced her with him Anottlr charge made by Mrs. 000 a yeas alimony divorce him 16,000,000 PUPILS Professor Declares Failure to Keep Them in Condition is a National Disgrace. CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. sical Education sity said: wums trying to ‘educate handicapped by ill health, tas which are This shows sical remediable. that disgrace to the nation.” Josephine Corliss Preston of Olym pia, Wash., President of the Nationa: jerats in the next campaign who had refused to stand with the President? Johnaton, concert manager, for $7,000. ANd where would it leave, the Demo~! 4 iiitie more. than on cratic campaign orators who might | Want to poit to thelr Republican Ho tor the mortga fee of $3.25 on each pi up the mo tax of ages and kept and the filing getting only He said he He will bo s lost the money gambling sentenced Friday, Budeation Association, told the Coun the women teachers are quitting fo the same reason, Frost went to hearing was he hud dragged her about the room by her She also said her husband had $4,000 worth of whiskey at each of their three to drink Frost was that her husband promised if she would PHYSICALLY UNFIT 24.—Dr. ‘Thomas D. Wood, Professor of Phy- at Columbia Univer- New York, addressing the Na- tional Council of Education to-day, “Our schools are wasting enormous children Seventy- five per cent., Or 16,000,000 school chil- United States have phy- mostly the | business of keeping the schoo! chil- dren in good physical condition is a (a EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1920. ’ COURT REBUKES THREE BLLION DEFICT SURE = IN “ORGY OF EXTRAVAGANCE” | MOFFITT $100,000 m0 mu d backing the Regular Army ma- | chine are scores of civilian organiza- the National and Se- curity League, officered and support- ‘ed by influential citizens in whose cars the tocsin of war is always | sounding. But the Regular Army ma- | [chine ond all the patriotic and pro- tective and alarmist bands would be more or less impotent in the further- | ance of their plans for keeping the country on a war basis were it not | for the solid support furnished by the Senate Committee on Military |, Affairs. James W. Wadsworth jr.| of New York is Chairman of that committee. | ‘The Senate Committee on Military | | Affairs is the dominant factor in the ‘regulation of the military branch of | the Government and the Chairman of | the committee is one of the powers in| Congress. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs is close to the Regular | Army machine, which plays politics | with the skill and efficiency of long ex- | perience, no matter which of the old parties happens to be in power. \ In this Congress the Senate and) House Committees on Military Affairs | have worked together to frame a bill providing for a military establishment. | The committees have not adopted the! programme submitted by the Secretary | of War. They have formulated one of their own, which, while providing tor @ smaller Standing army than that! Proposed by the Secretary of War and the General Staff, also includes the fea- ture of compulsory military training. | | There was no serious division ¢ opinion in the joint committee on mil zy affairs during the formulation jthe military programme. The Chair- man of the House Committee on Mili- tary Affairs is Ropresentative Julius Kahn of California, an able and con- sistent proponent of compulsory mili- | tary training, and the maintenance of | & large, fully equipped and always ready military establishment. | TALKS RETRENCHMENT, BACKS) | EXTRAVAGANCE. | ‘The joint bill came before the Senate and is known in Congress aS the Wads- ,worth bill. As originally drafted and introduced, it provided ior a military establishment to cost, with the military training feature included, a minimum | of $1,300,000,000 a year, to which would | have been added the first year $300 | 000,000, the minimum amount esti- mated as necessary to prepare the | military camps of the country for! the system of compulsory ;ot young men. Senator Wadsworth intreduced the} bill and vigorously championed it. During the time the bill was before | |the Senate tor discussion Senator | Wadsworth, representing the State | which pays 45 per cent. of the war taxes, was not heard to declare that this orgy of extravagance must cease. He proved that he was in the continuance of extravagance of | expenditures in the War Department | on a war basis and the perpetuation | of the orgy of extravagance by offer- | ing @ bill designed to build up a mili-} tary establishment to cost, at the lowest estimate, $1,300,000,000 a year, which is much more than the United! States spent for all purposes of gov-| ernment in the year of peace immedi- ately preceding our entrance into the! war with Germany. | There exists in this country a great| demand for a large military establish-| ment and compulsory military train-| ing. There exists also a virile opposi- tion to a large military establish- | ment and compulsory military train- | ing. The opposition is now on top| and compulsory military training as a| part of our war preparations has been temporarily shelved; but there is a project on foot to bring it forward | again so amended that the compul- sory training shall not begin until HOW NEW YORK TAXPAYERS ARE DIRECTLY INTERESTED, Whether compulsory military train- ing and a great military establishment are necessary (o the well being of the country is not pertinent to this article. What the taxpayers of New York, who pay into the Government 45 per | | Legislature bills providing for war! regulations that they will always fly the training | positions, should bear in mind is: Senator James W. Wadsworth jr, who said the other night at the Hotel Astor that we are heading straight for & $3,000,000,000 deficit this year and if we don't look out we will strike an- other deficit next year and that this orgy of extravagance must cease, in- troduced in the Senate and pressed tor Passage a bill which would cost the taxpayers $1,300,000,000 a year for the military establishment. In the year 1916 the military establishment ‘cost $117,000,000, ‘The figures set forth in this article are not mine. I have taken them from the records of the House of Hapresen- tatives. On Feb, 3, last, Nepresenta- tive Frank W. Mondell ‘of Wyoming, the. Republican leader of the House, sald, on the floor of the House: facts of the situation? The Secretary of War has recommended an army of 670,000 men, to cost nearly $1,000,000,- 000. Nobody, outside the Gencral cent. of its receipts from war tax im- | “In conclusion, may 1 sum up the) &" re TRUE NEW YORKER HAS A CORKSCREW, | SAYS BISHOP BURCH | Carries It Instead of Going to Cub | —Why Women Are Angels | Rev. Charies 8. | Also Revealed. I Episcopal Bishop HE Rt. Bureh, New York, knows a true New Yorker when he sees ong, and he also knows an angel. He defined oth for the police of- ficers at the Police Lieutenant's | annua! dinner at the Waldort- Astoria Jast night | “A tre New Yorker,” said the Bishop, “is a man who instead of going to Cuba carries a corkscrew in his hip pocke' ‘The Bishop believes women are angels, he said, for three reasons, firs:, because they are always up in the alr; second, because they are always harping upon some- thing, and third, because they are always in need of clothes. tary training system which that bil! provides, and we have a total cost of $1,300,000,000 as the minimum cost of the military programme outlined in the Senate bill.” In the orgy of extravagance the) War Department leads the way.| Other department and bureau heads ‘feel that they must keep pace with! the former military expenditures in order that | they may do their part in insuring! the country against invasion. Stat:s- | men who preach economy at public dinners and advance in the National | expenditures in time of peace not only encourage the departments which/| emulhte the War Department but, | necessarily, must co-operate with them in keeping the national spend-| ing machine in high gear. This orgy of extravagance cannot} cease under conditions which witness | the proposal to expend $1,300,000,000 @ year on the military establishment —almost one-fourth of the estimated ordinary cost of the whole Governs ment for the fiscal year 1920-192 data alpen CAILLAUX TRIAL | RESUMED TO-DAY Men and Women, High in Politics and Society, Present to Hear ‘Fes- timony Against Ex-Premier. PARIS, Feb. 24.—Paris made a s0- clety event of the resumption of the hearing of Former Premier Caillaux to-day. When the Senate, sitting as a high court of justice, resumed the trial scores of men and women, prominent in politics and soclety, all elegantly dressed, were In the audience. Cailliux is charged with plotting against the Government during the war. ‘The examination of Caillaux to-day dealt with his relations with Dolo Pasha, executed at Vincennes in April, 1918, and Pierre Lenoir, executed in October, 1918, for having held intelli- gence with the enemy. M. Caillaux explained that he thought Bolo innocent until telegrams from America were published. ‘Then, he testified, he broke off all relations with Bolo. ROBBED AND ARRESTED TOO. Victim Held by Police For Shooting Highwayman Who Held Him U; Fred Wallace, @ negro ‘barber, of No. 123 West 133d Street, was to-day held by Magistrate Nolan in the West Side Court in $500 bali for the Grand Jury on a charge of robbery, According to vatore Caparbo of No, 303 East 99th | Street, he was sitting on a bench | Central Park, with a girl on the eve- ing of Feb. 14, when Wallace held him up_and took $10. Salvatore fired a revolver, and Wal- lace was captured after being wounded three times, He appeared in court this morning with his head bandaged. After Wallace had been bound over, Gaparbo was arraigned on the charge af ylo- lating the Sullivan law. ‘Caparbo was released when he showed a police permit to carry a weapon, WOGD TO OPEN CAMPAIGN. Will Make South Dakota Speeches ‘To-Night. | YANKTO: Gen. ean candidate President in | March 23 primaries, arrived ‘here to- jay to make the first speech of South Dakota campaign to-night. | Before jeaving the State he will de- the | his | FRIENDLY DUEL INTERRUPTED BY CALL TO COURT + } Unfeeling Arizona Deputies, Seek- ‘ ing Jurymen, Force Calling off of Perfectly Good Gun-Play. TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Feb. 24. E Bisbee doportation trial I ruined prospects for @ friendly shooting scrape. Deputy Sheriffs, returning from the mountains, after summoning the sixth venire, brought Andrew Hoska, who won the prize ,for queer excuses for not coming to court. “I just got to finish this fence,” Andrew told the officers. “Old man—told me if I closed this gate he'd shoot me. I'm building this fence across where the gate was, By thunder, if he's going te shoot me, I ‘got to be handy.” ‘The Sheriff insisted that jury duty was more important, so he ‘was in court to-day. BENSON MAY URGE HOLDING OF SHIPS New York Senate at Same Time Urges Wilson Not to Sell Seized German Vessels, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Sweeping dhanges In the policy of the Shipping Boand toward sales of former German ships are understood to have been dis- cussed to-day ct a conference of Ad- miral W. S$. Benson, Chairman Payne and other members of the board. Ben son soon will succeed Payne as Chair- man. Tt is bel Payne's policy of sefing rman ships wil be aban doned and that Benson will institute 4 new policy of retaining some of the vessels for the army transport service and disposing of the others under such United Stal navy serv -ALBA es fing and be ce in time of war. N. ¥., Feb, 4—The Senate to-day by 30 to 6 adopied a concurrent Tesolution of Assemblyman Ralph Ha pern (Rep.) of Queens, urging Presi dent Wilson to defer the sale of con fiscated German ships for an less than their valu : cals : SHIP SALE ORDER SIGNED. ready for amour jearst Injunction May Be Pough 1 © by vernment Board, WASHINGTON, Fob. Associate Justice Bailey to-day signed the for mal order of injunction against the Shipping Board to prevent the sal of twenty-nine former German liners. The court consented to the request of the Shipping Board that the ship Suwanee, which has been sold fo: $2,000,000, be excluded from the order Wiliam Randolph Hearst, whb brought the proceedings, furnished « bond of $10,000 to indemnify the Ship- ping Board against loss. No not fication of an appeal was given b. counsel but it was aid a special appeal may be taken later, — BIG INCREASE IN EXPORTS. American Import Business Also Shows Rise of 93,000,000, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Exports for January totaled $731,000,000, an increase of $49,000,000 over December, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce announced to-d Imports for January wete $474,000,000, an increase of $93,000,000, Notice to Advertisers Sa Advertising copy and release or- ders for either the week day Morn. ing World or The Evening World, if received after 4 P. 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THE WORLD. liver three addresses. | and the Administration, is cons: ing any such establishment. cammitices of the House and Senate are likely to provide for a regular establishment somewhere between 226,000 and 275,000 officers and men, ling and etaff,” At the present cost this would involve appropriations of from $425,000,000 to $475,000,000, ‘This force could not be reduced by any tem of military training, unless by military training is meant military service. The tendency would be to increase it, as 1 have suggested A system of universal, compulsory, military training, such as has been proposed, would cost at least $700,000,- 000 per year, after the first year, Add the cost of the regular estab- tat the lowest figure suggest- 000,000, and we have a total of $1,125,000,000, as the lowest annual cost of A moderate regular establish- ment and system of universal, com- pulsory military training such as is proposed, without taking into consid- eration the expenditure of at !.st $300,000,000 to prepare the eamps for the system of training. ALL DEPARTMENTS TRY TO KEEP UP THE WAR BASIS FACE. “This o#timate is, however, lishment proposed by the bill now be- .| tore the Senate and the universal, }| compulsory military. ti which it provides. that bill, without any military train- r tauoh | below the cost of the regular estab-| ining system | The regular mili- | -| tary establishnient provided for in cil that years ago men quit teaching because salaries Were low and now| ing whatever, will cost at least $600,- 000,000, Add to this $700,000,000 as the cost of the universal, compulsory mili- | | For To- morrow, Wednesday, —Thene are big aromatic Mavored with Purity and richness. 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