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‘The te. * Utne "New York Werld). Press Fablishing NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, NIGHT UPRISING IN HAYTI BALKED BY SLEEPLESS MAN AND BODY OF U.S. MARINES True Story of Caco Revolutionist Attack on Port-au-Prince and Its Repulse, Saving American Prestige in West Indies Told for First Time. By Lindsay Deni: (Staff Correspondent of The New York Evening World.) Copyright, 1940, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wortd). SECOND ARTICLE OF A SERIES, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hayti, Feb. 16,—The events of the early Morning of Jan. 16 in Port-au-Prince—known to the world outside as a futile “bandit uprising” of a handful of outlaw negroes—were really the most serious threat to civilization in Hayti in many, many years. The insommia of one man saved the capital, of Hayti from fire, pillage and murder, and close behind them was the danger that the whole plan of peaceful United States control of the Black Republic should be upset and that the authority of the United States in the West Indies would. have suffered such a blow as it has never known in modern times, A measure of mf the seriousness of the situation’ is the official death toll, of 176 rebels, Eee ASSASSIN WOUNDS SERBIAN REGENT AND HIS PREMIER though recognized as correct by Haytians generaNy and by American business people resident in the country, will not be accepted pa- téently by the brave and able sol- diers of the Marine Corps who are the pretectors of the occupation. It was Mecessary to come to Hayti to find owt what happened more than was told in the official despatch which re- \ Tatea that “300 bandits attacked the city in three columns” and after a brief engagement were driven back into the hills with “a loss of about one-third of their number.” Nothing in the narrative refleots in any way on the watchfulness, the de- votion, the daredevil bravery of the officers and men of the Marine Corps (or their pupils, the native gendarmerie), who rose to the wicked ergency just as the traditions of eo Corps would have led| Path from Triest to the Giornal the people at home to anticipate. | D'Italia, forwarded by the Central ALWAYS DANGER OF MASSACRE | News’ Rome correspondent. Given in First Despatches 4 to Rome. LONDON, Fob, 2 been made Regent Alexander of Serbia and Pre- An attempt has assassinate to Prince | mier, Protitch, according to a des- IN HAYTI. ‘| Both the Prince Regent and the Intent on carrying jout the duty| Premier were wounded, the report fmposed on them froi~ Washington declares. . of carrying Hayti's whillet, deciding how much Hayti shall pay on her in- ternational debts and how much @pending money she shall have, the United States officials in this coun- try bave an ever present nightmare OHIO OPENS FIGHT ON 18TH AMENDMENT of distraction—the Cacos. As to what | Asserts in Court Brief Is Not Con- a Caco is, and why, later correspond-| stitutional Until Voters Pass pee, ust Ciecloes. He eka) atead on Legislature’s Action, rst declared | (De ils in| WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The State igdqpendence from French rule, in} one in « brief filed with the Su- 1804 and massacred the French Pop- | ome Court of the United States to- Ulation, there have been outlaws, | aay upheld the legality of the referen- restless and energetic enemies of the |qum ast November by which ratifica- \ established government, in the moun- | tion of the national prohibition amend- tains of North Hayti. |ment was withdrawn, 4.\@here has never been a day in 116] ‘The position taken is the action of the whan the President of the Re- |1esisature in ratifying the amendment Publi and his associates—at present |¥## Not completen ntil tt had beon passed on by the people of the State by Col, John H. Russell, commanding | Dasted on by: the; brigade of occupation; Gen. F.|" spne Constitution of the United M. ‘Wise, commanding the Haytian States does not provide that the States Gendarmerie; Financial Adviser John] shal! have any particular form of leg- H, Mollhenny and the other de facto | istature,” the brief states, The people Américan rulers—have not been|of the State in their State Constitu- threatened with overthrow, robbery tions may provide that the action of and death or exile by the Cacos, the General Assembly shall be condi- | "Phe Caco js an omlinary, rag-clad, | tional upon popular rejection or ap- roving, half-starved mountaineer nes | Proval °t the polls. In such a case th oe ene moment. In the neat | MCt2 « the General Assembly, if ap- wks bis leaders call him to action, | PFoved by referendum, is a ratification by the Legislature, If rejected, he puts on a red shirt, or, lacking | 9 ratification by the Legislature of thet, ties a red band somowhere! that Sta about his clothing, takes up his ma- | a pasties. 3 chete and his rifle and becomes a] AT LIES TO DESTORY cruel, fanatical, murderous wild man. as sly and as dangerous as any rea] SOME GERMAN SHIPS, Ingian on the war path. Three thou- sand of the 2,600,000 citizens of Haytt | be Cacos; there may be 15,000. Cacos, at least, are reputed to PARIS, Feb. 25,—The Council of bassadors to-day decided that the ex- |cess German shipping, which was not ne Page.) | destroyed. (Continued on & — TAURANT, us aay Wet Salt PE: 4 ath door, World Busing —“aare | Thi, decision Presumably refers to 1990: | the dispute oyer djsposiion of German fad | war ships, which have not already boon d@istributeg among the Allica. No Details of Attempt Are} there | attributed to the Entente Powers, will be | ARNSTEIN: READY ~TOSURRENDER HIS | LAWYER DECLARES Will Give Himself Up Before Night If “Reasonable Bail” Is Asked. BANK FUNDS TIED UP. U. S. Court Orders Examina- tion of Fannie Brice—New Indictment Asked . Attorney William Fallon, defending Emest Fritz, changed wit the mur- der of Mrs. Florence Coyne, to-day. announced that he had been engaged a8 counsel for “Nicky Arnstein, wanted as the “brains” of the al- leged plot to steal $5,000,000 worth of securities from the Wall Street dis- trict, and that “provided the District Attorney is willing to ask a Teason- able bail," Arnstein would be sur- rendered before night. Asked what he considered a reason- able bail, Fullen and his associated lawyer, E. F. McGee, said, “Oh, about $50,000 or 50.” The appearance of Fannie Brice, actress and wife of Arnstein, in the Bronx court where the Fritz murder trial was going on this morning, cre- ated a stir in the crowd that filled the court room and adjoining hallways. Moses Grossman, with offices at No. 1155 Broadway, has been repre- senting Miss Brice in connection with civil questions arising over the in- junction obtained by the National Surety Company, restraining the act- from disposing or \removing cer- tain funds she is alleged to have in the Pacific Ban and other institu- tions, Fallon telephoned to Assistant Dis- trict. Attorney John T. Dooling, in charge of the bond theft case, asking = | what bail the District Attorney would | demand if Arnstein is surrendered to- day of to-morrow. “One hundred thousand dollars,” re- plied Dooling. “Preposterous,” cried Fallon. “Cut that in half, We don’t propose to have Arnstein, innocent of the charges against him in this case, cooped up in the Tombs under an ex- ive bail.” othing doing,” The ter rested there after #ome further talk, but Fallon later said that he intended calling upon the Dis- trict Attorney after the day's session at the Fritz trial was over. To reporters, said “Arnstein is not guilty of this charge. We shall have little diffi- culty in showing that he is being made the goat by the real thiéves in the hope of saving their own skins.” Justice A, N, Hand signed to-day an order calling for the examination of Miss Brice before Bankruptcy Ref- eree Gilchrist The order was issued on a petition filed by Edward H in bankruptey for names in addition who is ce: said Dooling. newspaper Fallon Childs, Arnstein, to Miss receiver Bric (Continued on Second Page.) —=— MEXICANS KIDNAP ANOTHER AMERICAN State Department Informed Seizure of Barry Hogarty in State of Duran; w HINGTON, Feb, 25 garty, an American napped by Mexicans at Matimi Durango, g held Is —Barry citizen, Ho- was kid- and is be ray elved som, by ording to information Department was superintendent Mi State of onpan the ping American The ki¢ was re. LIPTON CUP RAGER and | State of | 1920. ~Gtrealation Books Cree | to All.” Entered as Segond-Cliss Matter Post Office, New York, Lt he EDITION SP NATEA OBEN NCW TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair. 22 PAGES. Loa PRICE TWO rye IN PERIL AT BLAZE: Shamrock IV., Vanitie and Other Craft Endangered in | City Island Fire. OIL TANKS BLOW UP.| Snow Hampers Firemen in Fighting Flames Spread by High Winds. ‘The famous America’s Cup yacht racers Shamrock IV., owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, and the Vanitie, owned | by the New York Yacht Club, narrowly escaped destruction early to-day in a $1,000,000 fire that burned five yachts and endangered scores of othe> fine} pleasure craft in.the Jacobs Brothers: shipyards at the foot of Pilot Street, ) City Island. At one time the edge of the blaze was only twenty-five feet from the Sham- rock IV. and gasoline tanks were ex- ploding every few minutes to scatter flaming fluid near the Lipton craft. The defender Vanities was some dis- tance further from the fire. There was no way of getting the racers into the water, as all the ma- rine railwcy tackle had been stored for the winter, The Shamrock IV. was taken to City Island from South Brooklyn Basin a month ago to un- dergo alterations. A driving snow storm and almost impassable roads added to the dif- ficulty of the firemen, but it was an accumulation of snow on the canvas and wooden coverings that saved many of the sixty-five or more vi uable vessels when gasoline and fire- brands rained on them. The following craft were destroyed: The schooner yacht Queen, 148 feet long and Valued at $125,000, owned by E. W. Clark, a Philadelphia banker; the schooner yacht Mystery, 140 feet long and valued at $100,000, owned by W. H. Farrell, President of the United States Steel Corporation; the schooner yacht Aurora, 80 feet long and valued at $50,000, owned by Roy C. Megargal, a banker of No. 27 Pine Street; the schooner Whileaway, 85 feet long and valued at $75,000, owned by a Mr, Sellers, a Philadelphia banker. The schooner Venona, 90 feet long and valued at $75,000, owned by Mrs. George Lawler of New York City; the power boa® Aloha, owned by H. W. McIntyer of No, 238 Broadway, and the power boat Bitbob, whose owner is unknown. All of the boats lost were covered by insurance. Among the craft that escaped the flames through the hard work of fire men and volunteers were the Gem, Jowned by William Ziegler jr.; the| |Madonna, owned by Seward Pro President of the Bankers’ Trust Company; the Idilea, owned by ton Otis; the Dervish, owned by J.| (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) | uU. s. NAVY ORDERS “KICK” REMOVED |New York Club ARNSTEIN MAKES AN OFFER TO SURRENDER WOMEN ASK THAT DEMOCRATS URGE FIVE YACHTS BURN, DRY REFERENDUM eee Their Resolution Before State Convention Calls Prohibition Usurpation of Power. IS CAL VOT =D FOR. Introduces Measure Before Women’s Meeting in Albany By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 25.—The cratic Women's State meeting here this afternoon on thhe the unofficial Democratic State Convention to-morrow, will be asked this afternoon to go definitely on record as favoring a national referendum on the prohibition ques- tion. As soon as the convention organtza- tion has been effected, the following resolution will be introduced by Mrs. Julia Sanders, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Platform: Mrs. Sanders's resolution, adopted ‘by the Swastikak Women's Demo- cratic Club, New Lork, reads, in part: “Whereas, The general Govern ment usunped many of the Stato rights, compelling dependence on the general Government, rather than individual expressions from acu State, this having forced upon the people of New York a by enactment of National pro- hiition without permitting tie people to have a voice therein, the delegates from the Swastika Women's Democratic Club shall urge upon the unofficial conven- tion, 90 far as is in their power, that we return to the old-fash- joned doctrines of Jeffersonian Democracy; that certain parts of the ‘Constitution of the United States so stating shall be written into the Democratic platform at the National convention in June, viz: That the American people have he right t life, liberty and the pursult of happiness." From authoritative sources it was learned that the women plan to ask Demo- Convention, indorse Gov. Alfred E. Smith as the Democratic nominee for U. 8. Senator in case it appears that Senator Wads- worth will be the successful nominee on the Republican ticket. The conference was Mra John Sherwin Crosby York, affectionately called, "the mother of the Democratic women, because of her life-long activities The conference is held upon the eve of the Democratic State Convention, which meets to-morrow to nominate delegates and alternates at large to the Deimooratic National Convention ‘The conference of women was called so that they might have an oppor tunity of choosing their own woman |representative or representatives on the “Big Four’ to represent the State at the Nationa] Convention called by FROM GRAPE JUICE Must Not Contain More Than One- Half of Admiral Rules. BOSTON, Feb. 25 in the navy more than one | yF Juice | half of 1 per cent. of ply offi be held re . saya an orde Admiral Dunn, Commandant | of the First District, to-day he order directs that all grape juice on hand be tested for jt coholic content, and that are be exercised when new pur- | chases of this and other beverages will spon issued by are made. a WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ‘Git THE a ‘Puutaer Burding, Ss Dart 4000. Arcade, ported by ompany from its head~ quarters in New York It was said at the State Department information had been Jing the reported release Kew, the American, who at Lerdo and held for _>—— Imported Pompejan Olive OU ia never old ta ‘Dub always Wb ected tna Adrh, er One Per Cent., | ‘The conference was also called 90 | | (Continued on Second Page.) IVICE PRESIDENT’S ADOPTED SON ILL | oe | | Three-Year-Old Boy Critically I | in Vice President’s Suite | in Washi | WASHINGTON, F three-year-old 4 Mars hall sha hall, is critically suite in the Hotel here The boy is la disease causing ur |the blood. A speciulist fron Hopkins University Hospital at more ‘has been called. Both the V | President and Mrs. Marsha th bedside. Mr. Marshal! having cancelled all his engagements. suffering excess the unofficial convention to-morrow to| of New, | BAINBRIDGE COLBY NAMED BY WILSON STATE SECRETARY BAINBRIDGE COLBY. GUT HEDLEY PAY, QUST... BOARD, SAYS LA GUARDI Should Be City’s First Step in| Remedying Traction Evils, He Declares at Inquiry. Acting Mayor La at to-day’s traction h Guardia an- nounced ng before the Board of Estimate that the present Board of Directors of the In- that terborough should be of Frank removed, the salary Hedley, Presi- dent of the should be re duced from $65,000 to $: year and that the salaries of other highly paid officials should be company, 000 a reduced ac: cordingly. This should be the city’s first step as a curative measure of the | Interborough's | Mayor declared Referring to the conditions wiich | brought about the financial reverses Jof the Interborough during the war, | Mr. La Guardia declared the directors | of the Interborough should have fore- | seen war Either they “hopelesgy stupid and should not haye entrusted this undertaking” evils, the Acting conditions, | were he said, “or they were unpardonably | reckless and should be censured or dissipating the funds of the com- | pany." He declared he knew of one in- stance where a very important man| who has p ed away now, but who] | was held up as a shining exmple of success, lost $6,000,000 on one ven- ture. E. F. J. Gaynor, Auditor of the In- terborough, was being examined when Acting Mayor La Guardia made these Mayor said | “Mr. Berwind, in he coal business, | knew what was going on, and he con- | ducted business — accordigly. | August Belmont knew what was going | on, und he did the game. J. P. Morgan, | y » whom you uid $125,000, knew actly what was going on, because hi nappened to be the financial agent of » in he 1 ye Phey knew, You ne tha 6 14 the operation “ tert 1's properties is concerne replied the auditor and they are} only things which really are to t considered when speaking of divi dends—so far as the operations of th proerties are concerned the full force th ct of the War was not felt replied Mr, La Guardia when a man wa ing a} (Continued om Second Page.) |CLASH EXPECTED to take a long rest. Should Mr. Polk retire two im portant posts in the State Depart- ment would be left vacant, that of Under secretary, to which Mr. Polk advapced some months ago, and | of peat ei Secretary, The latter jplace was held by William Phillips, | he newly appointed Minister to tne OMITS UNIVERSAL TRAINING. | $$$ rn NATIONAL POLITICS MIXED UP: IN APPOINTMENT OF COLBY, OLD BULL MOOSE LEADER He Put Roosevelt Chicago in 191 in Nomination at 2, Went Over to Wilson Four Years Later—Known as International Liberal. By David (Special Correspondent of The Evening ‘World.) Lawrence. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Copyright, 1920) Balhieidn Colby, Secretary of State. The appointm a surprise but it makes official Washi Politics, national and international, Jolby is an amiable gentleman, a skilful lawyer, splendid after-dinner Mr. ent, announced to-day, is not only, ington gasp. are involved ‘in the selection, speaker, remarkable orator and spellbinder and a charming personality. COLBY IS HOPEFUL OF MAKING GOOD IN HIS NEW POST New Secretary Confers With Presi- dent Just Before His Appoint- ment Is Announced. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. BVORD the announcement of his nomination to be Sec- retary of State Bainbridge Colby had a conference with President Wilson on the south lawn of the White House. On leaving he said: “I bad a long and unhurried conference with the President, which impressed me with the great confidence he has reposed in me, I hope I shall not prove Inadequate to these great duties.” Mr. Colby said that pending consideration on his nomination by the Senate he did not desire to make a further statement. <> IN SENATE OVER THE CONFIRMATION Members Prepared to Widely Dis- cuss the President’s Removal of Lansing. WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—When the Senate takes up the confirmation of Bainbridge Colby as Secretary of State it is expected there will be hot debate over the Wilson-Lansing break. Immediately after Lansing’s moval, a number of Sertatons stated privately they intended to look into the affair when submission of the name of @ new Secretary for con- them an opportunity re- firmation gave to do #0. Mr. Colby has taken office, F Polk, Who has been Sec- retary Interim, is expected to carry out his intention of retiring from the State Department. Mr. Polk's physicians have advised him Netherlands, and Luxemburg. —E_ WASHINGTON, Feb. Republican pro: | Military | ‘© He is ono of the few men who has been for both Roosevelt and Wéoid= row Wilson without feeling cone scious of inconsistency. Ho is one of the few men who has the sup- port and indorsement of William Randolph Hearst and yet remained persona grata in both the Deine cratic and Progressive parties, | He Is one of those men who in his Ume has bitterly attacked President Wilson's policies and been forgiven, He nominated Roosevelt at Chi in 1916, and when the solon of Oys~ ter Bay decided to support Hughes for the Presidency Mr. Colby weat campaigning for Mr, Wilson, * MR. COLBY’S WORK ON THE U, SHIPPING BOARD. As a member of the United Btates Shipping Board Mr. Colby showed himself particularly anxious to safé= guard the American Merchant Marie and was responsible for the frustra- tion of the deal by which the British [companies attempted to get control of certain ships that had been owned by the International Mercantile Ma- rine and were under American regis= try. He goes along a little with the ele- ments who have from time to time ranged themselves in opposition. to British policies. Particularly was he prominent in 1913, in the movement against the repeal of the Panams Canal tolls, which was denounced int a big mass meeting in Ma Square Garden, New York, as une American and a surrender of Ameti+ can rights. Mr. Colby was the cttle® speaker at the mass meeting, whith was arranged by Mr. Hearst. But if Mr. Wilson considered what people said in attacking him he would have to disquiflify others from mem¢ bership in the Cabinet or from ap pointment to high office, Look up # of William C. Redfield when as a member of the House of Ropresenatives and you will see how he might have been ineligible for Cab- inet membership if Mr, Wilson hadn't been disposed to let bygones be by- gones, No more bitter denunciation of Mr. Wilson's personality was cireu- lated in the pre-convention campaign of 1912 than that by George Fred Wil- iams, yet he was later selected by the President to be American Minister to Greece. NEW SECRETARY ELOQUENT IN HIS PRAISE OF WILSON, The selection of Bainbridge Colby to be Secretary of State, however, means no sudden affinity between the White House and the distinguished progressive. It is a fact that Mr. |Colby became enamored of President Wilson when he came to Washington to become a member of the Shipping Board, No more eloquent complf- ments have been patd to the Presi- dent in public speech than those by Mr. Colby. He regards the President ws the true Progressive, the logical heir to Bull Mooseism of 1912, ca TAKE BELL-ANS APTER MEALS and soe bow fine GQOD DIGESTION makes you (eal. Adm. Mr, Colby is what might ‘be called a Liberal in domestic affuirs, and by of reasoning may Ye the same