The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 1

Get the ‘Comite: Back on Peace Basis Snow. - Ny {Circulation Books Open to All.” | —— “Cirenlation Books Open to Ae! ia LEE S ba LE EDITION = RVENGY yok LX. NO. 21,368—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Prees Publishing Ce, (The New York Wertd). NEW “YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, Ratered ax 1920. Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, Ne is 12" PAGES, _PRICE Two Ce -Wilson’s Rejection of New Note of Allies Reported > GETEXPENSES OF NATION nN PEACE BASIS OR SEEK NEW JOBS; CONGRESS 15 WARNED | People Demand Dr Drastic cg + omy, and at Once, Says Blanton of Texas. i “1S OUR LAST CHANCE.” | | There'll Be Many New Faces} Next Year if We Fail, He | ' on Tells House. By Martin Green. Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—""The peo- ! ple of the country are all stirred up * ayer the question of getting the Gov- | ernment back to normal conditions. | | know it, and if all you representatives | ' (pec | don’t know it, you are due to accumu- | late a lot of knowledge before long.” Thus spoke Representative Thomas | | Lindsay Blanton of the Seventeenth * District of Texas, Democrat, in the | Mouse last evening during the debate : op the appropriation bill for the lesis- ) tative, executive and judicial depurt-| ‘ments, Represontative’ Blanton” ‘has } been sounding this warning day tn ag day out for weeks, and others are ¢Bking up the chorus, but it was not Whtil yesterday that he seemed to wake an impression on his colleagues. There was apparently a quorum | Present—a rare thing during a debate unless it be ! om an appropriation bill, } Just before a roll call—and Represen- , tative Blanton had been pestering the | qusembled members of the House all ! qfternoon. He is a pestiferous sort of legislator, anyhow: on his feet most| + of the time, particularly when ques- ‘@ons of appropriations or the de- mands of union labor are up for dis- | * cussion, _/Mr. Blanton is serving his secona | term, but he has spread more words ! em the record in his comparatively + short tenure of office than most rep- resentatives who are veterans in the House. He is not popular in debate ‘ because he takes a crack at about everybody in sight when he gets ‘ started, and his voice fills the cham- ber and rolls through the corridors and attracts stragglers to the gal- » lerles. “18 GREAT AT DIGGING FACTS AND f FIGURES. In digging into an appropriation bill and excavating figures and things which have been supposedly securely hidden away this voluble Texan is a wizard, Doubtless he had his digging clothes on night before last, because he arrived loaded with ammunition and monn Generally he turn of wit confidence, mental sel raises a series of good-natured laughs during his speeches, and some times good natured has the laughs are nat 50 It was because he ‘fag an inciter of mirth that ob- feo Gina yesterday the clark Le iGIRLS MAY SMOKE, scored in the House, He had gained the floor to talk on en appropriation for the office of the Postmaster General, “Mr. Oscar Bur- | (Continued on Second Page.) ———eeSSSSSS SUNDAY WORLD (CLASSIFIED ADS. SHOULD BE IN THE WORLD OFFICE EARLY TO-DAY | (of Immigration, heretofore | WILSON OBIECTS TO WITHDRAWAL. OF FUME. NOTES To Tell Premiers He Cannot Depart From HisOwn | (poss BARNES ASKS iin dee | LIBERAL DRY PLANK sTaNDS BY JUGO-SLAVS. IN G.O.P. PLATFORM blll | Will Not Consent to Forcing | on Them a Settlement Ob- jectionable to Them. Joins State Senator Sage in Carry- ing Fight on Prohibition to the National Convention. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb, 28. Ww. INGTON, Feb. 28.—Presi- ILLIAM BARNES, former s penadighes : oe member of the Republi- | dent Wilson will not accept the in- can Na‘.onal Commit- | vitation of the British and French tee, and State S nator Henry M. | premiers to abandon all previoys Sage, who have been ‘recom- mended by the Republican Dis- trict Committee as delegates to the Republican National Con- vention from the Twenty-eighth Congressional District, issued a statement to-day favoring a plat- form declaration “providing for a liberal revision of the’ Prohibi- _tion Enforcement Act.” Adriatic agreements and join new proposal to Italy and Jugo- Slavia, it was said on good authority to-day. The ofMfciats were not disposed to} discuss the latest note from London, but it was said that the withdrawal of the agreement of Dec. 9 pending an attempt by Italy and Jugo-Slavia to reach a satisfactory agreement ELLIS ISLAND REDS ON HUNGER STRIKE | among themselves, as proposed by Fe SER a the Premiers, could have little effect Refuse to Eat Farina, Cafling Ii ]on the ultimate outcome of the ne- Mush—Second . Threat Phe: POpRE pia ple enunciated “i” that Starvation, agreement Will remain the same, it Radicals detained on Bills Istand, in a was explained, and the American numbering about 125, started another|Government will continue to adhere hunger strike at breakfast this morn- | to it's original position that a settle- ing. ‘This is the secorel time the “Reds” / mont to which Jugo-Slavia objected at Bilis Island have refused to eat, in| was not to be, forced on that country. an effort to compel thelr release of im-| white final settlement of the Adri- Frediate deportation. When they Were / atic may be made outside of the rst brought to Hilis Island three or : four handed of them reverted to wumi jasreement of Dec. 9, Prosident Wil- lar tactics to harass immigration of. |80% it was said authoritatively, will ficials. not recede in the principles outlined Byron H. Uhl, in this proposal. The President's course in the Ad- riatic matter was criticized to-day in the Senate druing the first debate on the subject. Senaor Kellogg, Repub- ican, Minnesota, one of the mild re® > ervation Republicans, who has been y working for ratification of the treaty, | HOOVER'S | NAME ON BALLOT. | took the lead in the attack and he Wood and Palmer, Too, to Be Votea| was joined by the treaty’s irrecon- On in Michigan. cilable foes. Acting Commissioner sald the inmates re- fused to eat farina. “They called {t mush," he declared, “Whether this is the beginning of an- other pretense at starvation 1 do not know.” LANSING, Mich., Feb. 28.—The names| Quoting from President Wilson's of Herbert Hoover, Major General Leon-| Adriatic note of Feb. 24, Senator ard Wood and Attorney General A. Mit-| Kellogg emphasized the statement cheil Palmer were added to-day to the list of those who will appear on the Presidential preference primary ballot in Michigan, April 5. Petitions were received by the Secre- tary of State to nlace Hoover and Wood on the Republica ballot, and Palmer on the Democratie ticket, WILSON’S SHEEP INCREASE, with regard to #élf-determination as a ‘basis of the proposed scttlement. He declared that this rule was not applied to the Saar Valley, Shantung and other territorial settlements made in the Peace Treaty, Aaivolebies eee TRUST TO BUILD HOMES. mn Lambs Are A te White| Steel Corporation Will Furnish House Flock. Homes te FE loyees. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—President) NEW CASTLE, Pa. Feb. 28.—The Wilson's flock of sheep has been in- creased by the birth of seven lambs. They have just arrived. This makes the number in the flock thirty-seven. Of the new arrivals there were three sets of twin ‘The President sheep thre loose on the origini United States Steel Corporation is pre- paring to build houses for its employes modations are insufficient. will be sold on the Inétallment plan, each purchaser to pay 10 per |down and the balance on instalments: George A. Rigby, in charge of the New Castle mills of the corporation will call the employes together within =the next fe wdays to explain the plan to thei bought the flock of years ago and turned it White House grounds. It ABEL Ree oles BUT WINE MAKING | woMAN CUSTOMS COLLECTOR AND DICE ARE TABOO KENOSHA, Wis., Feb. 28. Cowen at smoking is toler- President Appoints First Sex to That Office. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28,—Estelle V Collier of Salt Lake City was nomi- nated to-day for Customs Collector at Salt Lake So far as known here her's is the first appointment of a woman to such a Place. ated at Kemper Hall, fash- fonable women's seminary at Kenosha, Wis., but “crap shooting” and “moonshining” are still taboo, While Rey, Alfred Griffin, rector of Kemper Hall, to-day refused to explain the expelling of four stu- dents and two faculty members, student gossip had it that the of- fenders were making wine by put- ting raisins in clder and cooking the JAPANESE DIET DISSOLVED. wes Over Suffrage Bill ic Emperor to Act. Violent Cal concoction. ‘The expelled students | : and teachers also were reported dis- | WASHI Feb, %.--(By the sivared "ehaoting crepe for money,’ | Associated The anese diet Mr. Griffin's only cor t was | has deen di by jal decre that the six Women “had flagrantly | a8 @ result of a difference Violated rules." He Insisted “we | between the Cabin majority parties regarding ¢ ion franchise =a ‘This action was taken last Thursday, ) POMPEIAN OLIVE OLL viole ene ar THD) POMPEIAN | i following the violent scenes in Parlia- ‘nae OODy i for righteousness and right Usk DIPORT in communities where housing accom-|and has ‘The houses of Her) of the ATTORNEY GOES TO SEE ARNSTEIN AND URGE RETURN McGee on Way, Fallon Re- veals After Refusing to Answer Questions, |CLASHES AT HEARING. Request Made For Arrest of Fugitive’s Lawyer, But Later Recalled. William J, Fallon, after failin to ap- pear this morning as directed by subpoéna, at the hearing of the bank- ruptcy proceedings against his client, Jules W. (Nicky) Arnstein, who is wanted as the master mind in the $5,000,000 bond theft plot, hofore Spe- cial U. S. Commissioner Alexander Gilchrist, took the stand this after- noon and flatly refused to divulge! anything which might lead the au- thorities to the present whereabouts of Arnstein. Saul S. Myers, attorney for the Na- tional Surety Company and for Bd- wards H. Childs, receiver in bank~- ruptey for’ Arnstein, after repeated questions which Fallon. refused to answer on the © groulid ‘tat they Bend ed to violate the confidence between an attorney and his client, announced that he would appeal to Judge A. N. Hand for an order compelling Fallon to testify. The hearing before Gil- lcuplea by JERSEY 3, BEER LAW | WILL BE HELD UP. Not Recognized by the Federal Government—War Prohibition Law in Effect. WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—All persone | BURNED TO DEATH | lugainat to the “limit of the law,” irre- spective of any State statutes legalizing the sale of liquors, It was announced to-day by Commissioner Roper of the Internal Revenue Bureau. He jreferring to the 3.50 beer bill in the Jersey legislature, THREE CHILDREN = Firemen Delayed by Icy Roads —Parents of Two Families Had Gone to Work. the Jersey brewers, pan said to-day they of commencing the Speaking for Christian Felgen: had no intention SIX LITTLE ONES LEFT.) brewing of 3.50 beer until the Courts Three Taken Out, but Res-|var prenibition tew ‘also continues, tn cuers Were Unable to fect until peace is a Reach the Others. MEXICAN BANDITS KILL EX.U. S. CONSUL Albert Boss, a farmer in the truck and dairy section of Queens, driving along Old South Road morning when he saw flames through the winddws of a farm house at Cen- waa! State Department intourad of Murder of Augustus Morrill on Feb, 26, WASHINGTON, Fob. 28.—Augustus Morrill, formerly American Consul at Mgnzanillo, Mexico, was killed by! Mexi- can bandits Feb, 26, The prevent Consul at Manzanillo r ported that Morrill was attacked on nls way to the Hacienda [1 Balcon three miles from Colima, where he lived, and killed by pistol shots, The American Embassy at Mexico City*has been Instructed to make urgent represeptations to the Mexican Govern- ment looking to the arrest of the mur this treville Avenue, The house was oc- the families of Andrew Mager and Antonio Mewthek. The two men and their wives had left early to work on a neighboring farm, but three Mager children, Joseph, five; Benjamin, three, and Josephine, one, were still in the house. In another room were the three Mewthek children, Joseph, Myrtle and Stephen, six to ten years FRENCH RAILROAD STRIKERS. DRAFTED IN ARMY 10 BREAK TIE-UP OF TRANSPORTATION Government Will PARIS, Feb, immediate'y. and uncompromising spirit on the tion of work on all system.” NATION'S COAL BILL old. Boas, with Charles Hawxhurst, broke a door and rescued the Mew- the obildren. They wore unable to arhe were mened to death. Police Sergt. Kolson turned in alarm, but fire appara- tus reached the scene only with great a@iMculty because of the condition of derers, Mr. Morriil'y widow, who ta eighty years old, lives at Colima, He also ts survived by a} children, He was made Conayl Ang. 5, 18T2., Mr. Morrill was 88 yeare old and re- tired from the consular service jn 1881, sche lireeStire WON'T LET SOVIETS UP $100,000,000 BY PRICE PLANNED the roads. Tt is believed that the fire was started by couls dropping from a HAVE ARMY SHOES christ thereupon broke up and all went to Judge Hand's office in the Woolworth Building. Fallon had been subpoenaed to ap- pear at 10 o'clock. When 10.60 came and he was not in the Commisston- ers room Myers announced that he intended to ask Judge Hand for an order directing that Fallon be pun- ished for contempt and also for a bench warrant for the lawyer's ar- rest. Bofore the preliminaries for these could be completed Mallon ap- peared and charged Myers with hav- ing violated an agreement between the attorneys and the office of the Distriet Attorney that the bank- ruptey proceedings would be halted until Arnstein was surrendered, ‘After a conference with Assistant District Attorney Dooling Myers ad- mitted that a misunderstanding had arisen and offered to discontinue the | proceedings before the Commissioner. | Wallon thereupon said that he was |prepared to testify and the proceed- |ings went forward. |. Fallon denied that he had seen or! talked to Arnstein at any time within the last two weeks. He insisted that he did not know where ‘his client is { not known, Prior to the break in the proeeed- ! ings Fallon had testified that last | night he had sent his partner, EB, F, McGee, and induce the fugitive to return to | the jurisdiction of the court. Mr. Myers later announced | Mr. Fallon had told Judge Hand that | he expects tg be able to pypduce Arn- stein in the’ecriminal courts at 10 Yelock Monday morning and before | poectad Commissioner in Bankruptcy }mecused of making whiskey at ouy of town to find Arnstein | chicken that jund a fine of $100. kitchen stove. The house Was de- stroyed. A two-weeks-old baby of the Ma- gers waa saved because (he mother had taken it with her, War Department Has No Intention of Permitting Equipment to Go to the Russian Reds, WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Publication Serre: * in a War Department circular that the Child Burned to De: An Hin} American bureau of the Russian So- Mother Answers Doorbell, viet Government was the highest bid- Mrs. Anne Johnson, living on the sec- ond floor of No, 2072 West lth Str der on @ large quantity of army shoos recently offered for salé in the New Coney Island, wont downstairs this|York supply zone, was a mistake, It morning to answer the postinan's ring, | Was eald to-day at the office of the She left her three-and-a-hulf-year-old | director of sales. son Walter, on the bed playing with| !t was explained that it was not the newspapers, One of the papers feij| intention to make any awards to rep- on an oil stove. Mrs. Johnion heard |esentatives of the Soviet Government the baby's scteam and rushed into the | Officials sald that for several months room. The boy was enveloped in flames |i Soviet commercial bureau had au and was burned to deat mittod bids for clothing and equip- ee ment, but that all of them had been JAML FOR CARRYING |romis, 2 srinen sot ty te se BOOZE “ON THE HIP,” | snare Wat they BY Bet for + export Brooklyn Ex-Soldier Geis Three SOVIET RECOGNITION “SOON. Days In Prison and Has to | Senate Leaders Expect Action by Pay $10 emcee Be 28.—F oe ,._| WASHINGTON, —Recogni- The first sentence for carrying whis-| ion of Soviet Hussla by the United | key “on the hip’ was imposed n the States in the near future was predicted Broo) : o 0-day, ¢ klyn Federal Court to-lay. Geore| to-day by Senate leade! Wilson, an ex-soldier, doorkeeper in| gonator ilitchcock said re ‘ . @ Classon Avenue moving pleture house ¥ a sumption of relations with Ruasia is "very near." nator Koruh, forecast recognition of wan given three days in the peniter tary Levahicriaebh and sf hae Chatfield. Russia by the Allies within ten Aaya Barne! + No. 165 Bowery.) and action by the United State: a Manhattan, und Louis Se helberman, |terward te RE ee eee | No. 484 Worthm venue, Brooklyn rthman Avenue, Brooklyn.| i) sides declared the situation te | rapidly being brought to a climax by |the feolers which the Soviet Govern- ment is now throwlm out. _> - "115 CARLOADS OF EGGS 3,888,000, COMING FROM CALIFORNIA| the form Hoy Stream, 1, e Walker to five month |tiary and a fine man to forty-five d distillery at Vi; w 1 ° 2 OKLAHOMA FOR SUFFRAGE. Legislature Pass Governor W Measure Siem It. |Gitchrist at 2 o'clock Monday after- | noon. | Fallon declared yesterday his client | would be surrendered in court on | Monday. The District Attorney's of- fice is standing pat on its demand for $100,000 bail, which it 1s sald Arn- | stein Will be prepared to furnish, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, F This Is Only About a Third of ‘The House of the Speciat Session of the Oklahoma Lemlalature to-day \ Number Shipped Here Since the resolution ratifying the Woman | Feb. 15. Suffrage Federal Amendment without | the emergency clause, by a vote of 76 SAN FRANCISCO, FEB, 28, jto 4, with not voting. Tiled eo IPTHHN carloads of eggs berteon signs the | 4,888,000 in all, were shipped titi prt e from Petaluma, near here, Ratifeation, will be Governor J. 1, resolution | crease in price is general among World, th: wishes to make | newed SUNDAY WORLD’S PRICE UNCHANGED Tho raise in price of the Sunday American to 10 cents h: |] sulted in some confusion in the public mind as to whether thi no necessity for increasing its price. tly what it has hitherto been chi | World making no additional profits out of its sale. | to-day to New York City, the | Federal Bureau of Markets an- nounced. The nnouncement sald that forty-six carloads of epgms, valued , have gone Eust from Fob, 15. New York Sunday papers a = pp | TAK BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and seo bow fine GOOD DIGESTION makes you (nel Adre. -_ RLD RESTAURANT, y Special for to-day (satuniay),” eb. ia ham and sweet puted it clear to its readers that It continues to charge the 1g them, Th. 28, 1 | rumored that this commiss | miners running from 20 to 40 End of Federal Rl Rail Control Monday Leaves Open Way for Profiteering. (Srertal to The Broving Wert.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, — An- nouncement from New York of an expected advance of a dollar a ton for anthracite coal has served to call attention to the fact that the Gov- ernment will be without machinery for continuing the regulation of goal distribution after Monday, unless a new Federal Fuel Administrator ts appointed, Since the resignation of Dr. Garfield, Dec, 13, Director Gen. era! Hines of the Ratlroad Admini tration, has exercised the functions of Fuel Administrator under a dete- gation of power from Dr. Garfield. Inquiry at the Railroad Adminis- tration develops that the Rate Com- mittee which has had authority over coal prices, expires with the relin- quishment of Federal control of the carriers March 1, Unless President Wilson reappoints 1 Fuel Administrator, the coal situ- ation will become chaotic in a ehort time, with a relaxation of regulation and the incentive to profiteer which is offered in the limited supply said to be now available, Another complicating feature is that the Bituminous Coal Commission created for the settlement of the coal strike is about ready to report Ik ia on will an- se in wages for th per cent over the old scale which existed prior to Dr, Gurficld’s allowance of a 14 per cent, increase, 4 per cent, in- crease was largely passed on to the consumers and any further increases will have to be absorbed in the same way, it ls believed, unless the author ity ls lodged somewhere to prevent it. The now increase, if borne by the consumers, will add something like $10,000,000 to the national coal bill, ——»— VASSAR GIRLS IN CAR CRASH. now ce an inc Conductor Refuses to Let Them Jump From Runaway Trolley. POUGHKEEPSIE Y » 38.— A trolley car loaded with Vaasar irl ran away down Main Street hill to day ng stopped at the warf at th Hudson River by a concrete bumper, occupants were badly shaken up The and frightened Many of the girlx attempted to Jump Court Martial All Who Refuse to Obey and Threat- ens to Arrest Leaders for Inter- fering With Troops. $—Th he National Federation of Railwaymen to- day ordered a general strike of all railway workers in France, effective “The Executive Committee of the Federation,” the order sald, fter exhausting all means of conciliation and meeting with an obstinate part» of the management of the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railroad, the Minister of Public Works and the Premier as regants obtaining a suspension of punishments while awaiting arbitration of incidents, has decided to call for the casete The order ends in advising that greatest calm be preserved, that all provocation be avoided and that @il measures be taken to assure safety. Direction is also given that no damm - age be done. In Government circles It is py ted the situation has reached 4 teal state, eapectalty since the In« — Jection of the ralfical element: into the situation with their demand for a “soviet” to take the lines. The Government announced to-day ite intention to enforce the law, passed last night, permitting’ it to seizo all motor trucks and airplanes for the transportation of mails’ and foodstuffs. The officials likewise an- nounced positively thejr refusal to obey the demand of the strikers that the Government shall take of all the raflways, An official order has gone out, for all railway men who are liable to duty in the French Army to obey a call for mobilization and the mem thus mobilized will be competled to man the trains. Any reserve fajing to obey the order will be sent before @ military court martial for summary punishment, Troops to-day are being massed at all important railway points to pre- vent disorder and to see to it that the strikers do fot molest the men whe work or who attempt sabotage. 5 A Cabinet meeting. has been called for to-night. Railway men on many lines have been conscripted into the French Army and ordered to mobil ize to run trains. The prosecution of strike leaders but were prevented by the conduetor, | Basel bed aud cautmpe Ser tabled how, Sau” toe Wass Bh aly who would not allow the doors to be opened, ‘ situation . Monday. _ pe. was discussed at the Ministry of Justice this afterhoon. It is hele that the strike order issued after mobilization was decreed constitutes provocation to the soldiers to eban- don military duty and is punishable by one year in prison, Operating conditions on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean tine and other roads seemed to be slightly im. proved. Traffic was shown to have increased during the twenty-four hours closing at midnight, ama it was believed that mobilization orders sent to men of the Paris, Lyons and Medi- terranean and state roads would ring a sufficient force to carry en normal traffic, Strong military forees are guard- ing tracks inside the city of Paris, und a law authorizing the requisitions ing of automobi » motor trucks ang airplanes in case of interruption of railroad traffic was passed last aight by the Chamber of Deputies, Although thi strike had ext the Orleans system, main line oartios continued this morning, Suburbam trains, however, had been annulled, i he situation was stationary at the Sastern, Mont. Paresees and Inva- es station, while at the St Lagare Station, the company promised that trains would be run to Cherbourg, Havre and Dieppe, some civilians having offered their services, At the station of the Paris, Lyons and Medi- terranean Railroad mobilised men were reporting for duty, and @ very limited service was operated, Six main line trains and tive sub: urban locals, . ope: Ip, left the lorenoon, Hope would Was expressed be normal