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ri now become Tending Power in Ba and Moveloped the Panama Canal) & navy and merctam marine Make these islands more than mt to us, it not be possible to work plan by which England's debt ‘be reduced by the trans- Of certain British posses- i in the Western Homiaphere to ’ of their value? rt GREAT BRITAIN D BE WILLING TO SELL. ith Empire at this moment one-sixth of the land area whole world, and, dccording to ‘economic experts, the surplus of the mother country will for to come be expended in the) NEV n t of the agricultural and NEW MYS Tesources of the great self- dominions and of India. ine that Great Britain would ‘Peject to such a disposition of Stieeks islands, especially as they would $0 & friendly power. 1 see nothing eo) ofa portion of the Brit-| by the police in the plot to steal ¥ might be a happy solution of | $5,000,000 stocks and bonds from the ¢ Of Great Britain's immediate! nancial district, was stil missing | 1 pheonege this afternoon and Assistant District its the national capital leads to] Attorney Dooling eaid that nothing @onclusion that the matter would | had been heard from the detectives turers, Pe 3 a keed whe accompanied Eugene F. Mcfiee, ‘were ft not for t " " fein wpollcy {s-for the present in- one of Arnstein's attorneys, nor egarebty interwoven with what hap-| McGee. pena to the Ltague of Nations and) Mr, Dooling announced he has re ; for naval disarmament. | ceived from Washington @ copy of boa pers rhe aodor @ reed the voinntary petition in bankruptey ‘the British Government must} 14 by the brokerage firm of Davia tm mind the excelent use which | W: Sullivan and Company, and am- ‘mode of ber Atlantic possessions | (4¥its fled by Sullivan and his part }@ rendexvous for the British Navy | 2% Norman S. Jiowles. Sullivan is img the last war. under indictment * connection with ‘ome valuable bases the alleged bond plot. ‘the Rain ont roantyeteciel ‘The petition says that the firm js Great Britain would be loath | the owner of 9,000 worth of stock Go give up. Yet if international dis-| and bonds, and that its Mabilities are ts to be put into effect| leas than $300,000. Dooling called at- the League of Nations, Great| tention to the fact that Oot. 10 last have a4 little use for| the firm suspended because of inabil- a8 dhe would for more| ity to meet a demand for $5,000, and that the first piece of business trans- American | acted after it resumed on Oct. 28 was the state-| to pledge 100 shares of Worthington! Admiral | Pumping Machinery Company's stock, by other| The stook, it, is charged, had been General Naval Board, st@en from the finm of E. J. Byrne HANDCUFFS TO BE PUT ON ARNSTENN F EIS ARRESTED Swann, Tired of ‘‘Master Mind” Talk, Will Treat Fugitive “Like Any Crook.” McGee and Three Detectives Who Went for Missing Man Send No Word. wanted Hes. my ~ have “The largest navy in the; Mr, Gwann, who had been sum- - ‘ moned to appear as a witness in the ‘te bard to say whether this is a| murder trial of Ernest Fritz, accused @onsequence of the discourag-| of the killing of Mrs. Florence Coyne, fing fate of the iatest efforts at inter-| was questioned by reporters regurd- n oo-operation or the wsual|'ing thd status of the Arnstein case. which naval man feel about | He said: i “You can say #0 long a9 Naval expansion | tired of this talk of surrender, 1 have Lu on both sides of the Atlan- | issued orders to my men to arrest Mr, McAdoo's suggestion depends | Arnstein and to use handcuffs and t Ite acceptance by the British on| the patrol wagon just as we should Hom of valuable naval bases,| for any other common crook. apportunity that | Arnstein won't get any undue consid- residents of the| eration from my office.” a story that Arm- failure to appear yestenda ‘wetness or annexed to| was the resujt of an attempt to “double cross” him. The agreement made between his lawyers and the ANN authorities here was understood to be LAT FRITZ TRIAL that if he surrendered himself to his GenAdence tm Dr. Sohultue | lawyer and allowed the three detec- for Defense.| tives to accompany them back, he @wann, called as a| WOuld be allowed to give himself up morning tm the trial, in| '9 court and be placed in $100,000 ov oer ue hi and the detectt js lawyer e det ives aera ea ne nae Mit.|teft Friday night to meet him in “was pPhocaed Cleveland or Toledo, so the uncon- ‘against Dr.| firmed story runs, other detectives examination,| Who were in those cities in connec. confidence in| tion with the stolen securities were aken, but that he| telegraphed to arrest Arnstein if they whether to prefer} could find him béfore the others a: rived. Arnstein is said to have been engaged by District | tipped off and fled in an automobile in, became an expert wit-| 4 even his own lawyer could not ie expected tho taking of testimony | “24 bim the trial will be ended to-morrow, —————— VICAR DIDN'T SLIGHT FLAG. Guten Hxonerated, Tells of Fre- IN BOND PLOT CASE @uent Annoyonces From fro- 7 yrs Irving Adler, Said to Be Son of ® Visit of the Rev, Dr. Milo s.| Yiddish Actor-Manager, Accused . et of 3 pee ot the Inter- of Extortion. at 155th t and Broadway, clergyman was exonerated by the| Iving Adler, twenty-sevon, sald to ‘Attorney of charges brought by | M¢ & #on of the Yiddish actor-manager, @f the Bvening Journal, to tho| 48e0b Adler, was arrested to-day on ‘was shown to the| ®" indictment for alleged extortion that disrespect @f the United States at a Scoteh| sTOWing out of the stories said to have ——the .@ t| Ween told to Adsiatant District Attorney Wo of the Britsh a Richard BE. Murphy and the grand jury an accompanying display | hy Joseph Gluck, one of the messengers on displayed on the that indicted in the $5,000,000 bond plot case. te ons appearance before Judge Crain in the pens Eas NEW ARREST MADE TERY IN CASE,|" S grési’me that ‘T'm{of this proposed ‘investigation’ that it ! oe a: ee Mae ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, British Islands U. S. Might Buy As Way of Reducing War Debt) NEW RAILWAY Law The British possessions in the vicinity of the United States which ex-Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo suggests this country buy as a part eettioment of Great Britain's war debt include the following: , Bahamas (3,000 islands) .... British Honduras Barbados ., Bermudas Area in Square Population Miles, « 893,884 4460 » $8,484 4,403 42,325 8,698 180,516 166 21,629 19 1,196,838 17,636 Nassau or New Providence, capital of the Bahamas, has a popula- tion of 14,000, At the close of business on Oct, 2, 1919, total credits granted by the United States Government to Great Britain totalled $4,277,000,000. AMERICAN DENTIST ANDERSON LAYS OY INQUIRY To BARNES TANANY (Continued From First Page) | is hard to take it seriously. Lf based on the pasage of the resolution it would be palpably illegal. It cannot secure the legal nunyber of votes without the help of the Republican organization of the Assembly, and whatever the wishes of that organtza- tion it is hardly conceivable that it would place on record so open an ance with Tammany on the liquor allestion as to adopt such a Tammany resolution, “The Anti-Saloon League has vio- lated no law and I have been ready for legislative investigation for twenty years. If the Assembly wants to waste valuable time and public funds to give us a certificate to that effect we should worry. “The Republican Party will be in fine shape to appeal to the moral clement after the ridiculous collapse of an atempt to discredit the agency of that element and if to square them- selves they give the people what ls wanted it would be cheap at the price of the petty’annoyance incident to an investigation, We leave it to the com- mon sense of the public. Us it Itkely that we would have dared what we have dared if anybody bad anything on ue?” pena Sr een HAS ROSTER OF |. W. W. OHICAGO, March 2,—Maciay Hoyne Ptate’s Attorney, to-day believed he had a. iat of the names and addrenses of virtually every member of the Indus- trial Workers of the World organization in America. Detectives took the papers from a man who gave the name “Alex. Gaylin.” pela ha ia Bn Schick Test for Schools. ‘The Bchiek test for the prevention of | diphtheria will be applied to the children of 100 public schools in New York thie spring, it was announced yesterday by Dr. William H. Park, professor of bac- terlology and hygiene of New York Unt- 4 Director Fight When Police Try te Break mona CURES BLINDNESS TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1920. COURTS WILL TEST Rate-Making Power rr ac | to Be Attacked as Un- } constitutional. WASHINGTON, March 2.—Actton \'9 @xpected to be started soon in the Federgi Courts to test the constitu- | tonality of section 6 of the new railroad law which, in offect, em- powere the Interstate Commerce Commiesion to authorize an increase in rates which will insure the carriers return of 5% per cent. on the ag- Bregate valuation of their property. Mespite the fact that Attorney Gen- eral Palmer advised President Wil- son that section 6 is constitutional, one of the highest judicial authorities here declared to-day that this pro- vision of the Dill le clearly unconsti- tutional. This officlal also expressed the opinion that the portion of section *6 providing for turning over to the Interstate Commerce Commission 50 per cent. of all net earnings of the, railroads over 6 per cent., to const! tute a revolying fund, also is uncon- stitutional, in that tt is conftiscatory By whom the action will be started ‘ha not yet bee ndisclosed pido SAYS GERMANS LEAD IN AIR TRANSPORT. Col. Hensley, Who Flew Over Ocean on R-34, Declares Zep- pelins Have Carried 440,000. Dirigibles are the coming means of transatlantic travel, according to Col. William N. Hensley §r.. who rep- resented the American Atr Service on the return voyage of the R-34, which left New York for London July 10, and who returned to-day on the transport Northern Pacific. Col. Hensley «pent some time in Switzerland and Germany this winter. “The Germans are already leading the world iy air traneport." he sald. “They have’two new type Zeppelins | running between Berlin and Stock- holm and two between Berlin and | Switzerland. They have carried 140,000 passengers without a mishap.” | Thi rthern Pacific brought 546 Passengers, including the families of eighteen officers. She also brought home the bodies of nineteen Ameri can soldiers who died in England. The Northern Pacific also brought forty-one members of the crew of the steamer West Aleta, which went ashore off Terschelling Island Feb. 1 OF VISCOUNT GREY} UNIONS ACCEPT RAIL BILL. Reported Now That Former Am- bassador Aspires to Be Premier. LONDON, March 2. WASHINGTON dentist is credited with having al- most completely restored Viscount Grey's eyesight, which ‘Was nearly gone when he was in the United States, ‘Trouble with his teeth took him to the American dentist, who found a large abscess and re- moved !t. ‘Lord Grey's vision be- gan to improve immediately and’ ban continued to improve until it is almost perfect; in fact, a friend gays it is stronger than it ever was before, Because his partial blindness ts relieved, it is understood, he will return tp active politics with a view to the Premiership. RIOT IN LONDON STREETS. Up Parade. LONDON, March 2.—Police and Gov- ernment authorities to-day said they did not attach great importance to yester- day's rioting near the House ef Com- including | tn which fifty men, police, were injured slightly. police, Driskwater Deperts, Also Pie: The arrest took place after Adler's ‘chora}| Court of General Sessions on another versity an he Bureu oO jo of the| indictmeyt charging grand larceny, He was out on $10,000 bail in that case, which'has to do with the alleged theft vf $10,000 worth of silk, Gluck is said to have declared Adler vervice: ‘who is of Scotch desce: Deen, “subject to irequen ance 3 Ked hia Beotch wrth and for Great Britain Americunion us reoyeg | “tipped off Edward Furey, another fact that ho was Shapiain ‘of | prisoner, rewarding York Ei D. A. nant ate x! ‘waa & Mayflower Gescendant. ae TOO BUSY TO Go TO courT. Michael Varelli, eighteen, No, 7 Speeder Who Is Fined $75. Fog Gaffrey of No. 163 Eleventh | arraigned in Tombs Court. The cum- 4@ chauffeur in the employ of ‘ ye Spencer, @ manufacturer, of | No, 327 Canal Street, who saya Varelii "4 4 Weet 23d Btreet, pleaded guilty | worked for him one day as a truck before Magistrate Frederick B. | driver, made two deliveries, and stole : Roosevelt Street, arrested at Oak and Ae Ginsintrate Orders \Urrent of New Chambers Streets this mornng op | ® charge of grand larceny, was to-day | plaint is by Max Levy, woolen dealer, | ratories for the city Health De: it | tn Traffic Court, to apooding as | the third load, worth $1, Offender and was fined $75. ae Y, es served with « summons for epeding on Eighth Avenue, trey did not answer and when onu at me culled him up, hak hy ae W. ®. Hideway, lv Dt William P. Ridgway, a Civil veteran and retired policeman, whom all Bushwick and Greenpoint know as ‘ino “Billy,” dropped dead this morning r Coal on Nantucket Island. | while talking to two old comrades in OKICT, Mass, March t—<Nan-| the quarters of Mansfield Post No. 36, ) tay the scrapings of |G. A. R,, at No. 1018A Gates Avenue, lost without coal, Families! Brooklyn, lived at No..1129 Taa- ars fering 55, ae of fayette Avenue with u married pod available on the island | daughter, f sere’, whieh > War Veteran, War sifnaphn giana sbedtbatiag CHOCOLATE COV- ERED COCOANUT ROYAIS—One of the most nutrition, cle~ ments of foodxtuffs is ovat yee ‘Box veloved - StS amen eee Tuesday Attractions Fighting occurred when police at-| tempted to stop a procession of de- mobilized Downing Street in a protest demonstra- Uon a®ainst being thrown out of their jobs, ‘The men dispersed when they Were informed discharges would be sus- pended until March 13. More than 5,000 men took part in the demonstration. Several were clubbed by ‘Twenty were taken to hospitals. soldiers parading KAHN SATLS FOR EUROPE. With Two $75,000 Relief Fands. Otto H. Kahn of Kuhn, Laeb & vv. was among the 325 passengers sailing for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Liverpool to-day on the Kaiserin Augusta Vic- | toria, now of the Cunard tine. John | Drinkwater returned to England with | his wife, and Louis Epstein, @ Bayonne | plumber, was wished well by several He takes a rellef fund of $75,000 each to Baloniki | hundred friends at the pier. ‘ ‘Trade Mark Our Big Daily Special For Wednesday, March 3rd CHOCOLATE COVERED MABMALAD ES—This fipecial presents an excellent collection of Pure, homemade fruit Jellies in the following plensing flavors; Lemon, Strawberry, Oraaxe, Rasp- berry and Apricot. Each Jolly is tucked away in & thick cover- ing of our Unexeelied Checelate. SPROLAL FOUND BOx toward All Talk of ed by ‘To-Day's Act! WASHINGTON, March. 2—ftepre- sentatives of the railroad unions are un- derstood to have voted to-day to «ive the new railroad law a trial in bringing | about settlement of their wage de- mands. | It is understood also that they decided | to hold in abeyance plans to test the constitutionality of the law and not to refer the controversy to the union mem- bership for a vote “until the law has been given a fair trial.” This means, it is said, thet afl danger o n general strike at this time has been remor —_—— William ©. Howells 111 at 83, SAVANNAH, Ga., to his bed by influerka, William Dean Howells observed his elghty-third birth. day quietly yesterday. shows improvement. SPRING SUITS, COATS, DRESSES Suits with Swag- t Etons and Span- fh Bolero Jackets, also many others with longer graceful coats —an admira- ble selection from New York's style $35 10 $120 lothes on Menter’s generous terms of payment—a simple, honest plan of paying for what you buy to suit WE DO. AS WE ADVERTISE READ MENTER’S TERMS ne 8 week 08 © pure purchase of 50, tare liberal terms ‘arranged. 3 BIG UPSTAIRS STORES New York Store, 226 W. 125th Street. Open Evenings. Brooklyn Store, 435 Fulton St., Open Saturday Evenings. Newark Store, 149 Market St., Open Saturday Evenings. His condition | ‘STABS HUSBAND; FREED ON STORY OF HS DOUBLE LF (Continued From First Page.) womun and myself, and I told her to do ‘it before my husband came home from Boston, ‘The next day I, met her atthe Hotel Bonta, th Street and Broadway, She said: | “Mrs. von Tilzer, IT have found out you are a real woman, and I will tell you everything. I am the other wotnan, Your husband has been tak- ing me around to hotels for the last three years. He has been going un- der the name of Fred Adler! “She told me that my husband had afterward told her that he was mar- ried and that he was trying to get a divorce and was having detectives | watch me, “My husband came home at 3.30 o'clock Sunday from Boston and 1 showed him letters that this, woman {had given me, He didn’t deny it. 1 eried all day Sunday and suffered ter- | ribly, because I loved him dearly and he had told the other woman thal when I died he would give her my home and my clothes, I brought the two in contact and she wanted money. Last night my friends came up to talk things over with me, “I became hysterical as my nerves wore gone and I went into my hus- band’s room to talk to him. He wanted to sloop and said ‘If you don't get out I will put you to sleep my- self’ He hit me in the chest and to protect myeelf I seized the knife. Af- ter that I do not know what hap- pened. . DECLARES VON TILZER ONCE) BROKE HER JAW. “He has been a very violent man Te broke my jaw once before and on one occasion he tried to hit a little girl in the Hotel Astor whom I had to protect.” Mrs. Von Tilzer said her husband | had beaten her on numerous occa- sions. At the conclusion of Mrs. Von Til- zer's testimony, Magistrate Simpson said: “I believe the evidence is sufficient to show that this woman was pro- tecting herself, and if there is any doubt I will give her the benefit of it. Discharged.” As she left the stand, Mrs. Von ranging in price f $22.50 to $35 Regularly priced as high as $50 THE NEW COATS Including numerous sport models in Boli » Polo Cloths, Serges, Crystal Cords, Velours, Poplins, Silvertones. $9.95 to $60 | matches in We Are Featuring TAFFETA DRESSES Over 50 different styles CEMETERY BOARDS CALLED PROFITEERS WILSON WILL CALL . RAIL SCALE BOARD Charges Made at Hearing to Com- | Will Ask Unions and Road Execu- pel Directors to Pay Road Assessment Share, ‘Charges of profiteering were made against cemetery directors at a hearing Xo-day before the Committe on Assss- ments of the Board of Mstimate by for- mer Sheriff John ‘Kennedy of Queens, who represented the Queens Civic Union, and J, M. Harkew, who appeared for the Middle Village Property Owners’ Asso- elation, “Cemetery corporations are publicly profiteering and getting away with it,” said Kennedy. The former Sheriff appeared In favor of compelling a Queens cemetery to pay ‘ts share of the local assessment for the | extension of Kew Gardens Road, Ceme- tery directors opposed plan. “The only way to beat the cemetery pfofiteers,” sald Borough President Riegelman of Brooklyn, “is to refuse to die.” ee ‘PERSHING FAVORS TRAINING. Wants War P Always Ready | to Produce Materials. | WASHINGTON, March 2.—Rotention | of sufficient war time posts and war | plants to permit rapid expansion of the | army and resumption of production of war mate: at full capacity will be recommended by Gen, Pershing, -he in- dicated to-day, on his return to Wash- Ington after a three months’ tour of in- spection of camps, eantonments and supply depots over the country. ere is strong sentiment through- out the United States in favor of uni- versal service of some sort, Gen, Persh- ing said, based on recognition’ of the benefit to the men themeelves and also on the fear that “we might not have allies to hold the line for us in the next 5 a ae Boxing BIN, Sitghtty to Be Reported Ont. | ¥.. March 2.-~The Walker Boxing Bill, slightly amended from the original form probably, will be ted out of the Senate Judicia’ Committee to-morrow. Amendments te | place the minimuni we of contestants at eighteen years and to provide for tute armories were to be discussed at-a meeting of the commit- tee this afternooon, 1 Sine agg | Hart by Cold. MIAMI, Fja., March 2.—Damage estt- mated at over five million dollars was done to fruit and vegetables in South Florida by the extremely low tempera- | tures of last night. southern © combate | ‘Tihner sald she wanted “to prefer | charges against--her Busband, who, she alleged, “had~taken her jewelry while she was in a="hospital. She, mude an appointment formeet Assist- | ant’ District, Attorney’: Lynch this} afternoon. " The Von Tilzers Were married in| 1938, tives to Choose Representatives on Joint Tribunal. ‘WASHINGTON, March 2. — Prem- dent Wilson will soon send @ letter to tailroad employees and executives, inviting them to choose represente- tives, for @ joint wage tribunal. ‘The President promised to take this ac- tion in @ letter addressed to the rall- road union men when he signed the Each-Cummins raiiroad bill Saturday in the ‘The joint tribunal is provide bill, but its findings are made gal Ject to review by @ tripartite board consisting of representatives of labo: the exeoutives and the public. — CRUDE OIL REACHES $6.10. Fifteen Cents a Barret Offered in Pittsburah ‘Te-Day. PITTSBURGH. Pa., Increase Mareh 2.—Penn- ayivania crude oi) passed the $6 mark her Agen price of 15 cents a Darrel to $6.10, All other grades remain unchanged. Advertising copy and release orders ‘or either the week day Motning World or The Evenin, World, if received after 4 P, MN the day preceding publication, can be inserted only as space may permit and in order of receipt at The World office. Advertising copy for the Sup- lement Sections of The Sunda: orld must be received by 3 M. Thursday preceding publica- tion, and releases must be re- ceived by 4 P. M. Friday. Adver- tising copy for the Main Sheet of The Sunday World must be re- ceived by 6 P. M. of the preced- ing Friday and releases must be received by 12 o'clock noon Sat- urday. Copy or orders received later than as provided above, when omitted, will not serve to earn } discounts of any character, con- tract or otherwise. THE WORLD. rom that r | THE NEW DRESSES New frocks in smart effects, featuring Georgette, Taffeta, Tricotine, Satin, Serges and Jerseys. $10.95 to $60 NEAR 31ST ST. Special Values in TRICOTINE SUITS Trimmed and tailored mode's $40 to $50 Regularly $60 values ‘ange in price from in the very latest luding Tricotines, Silvertones, Velours and Jerseys. $16.95 to $90 Buy direct from the manufacturer at a little more than wholesale prices and save from $5 to $10! HAM.LTON GARMENT CO. 307 FIFTH AVENUE to-day when the Seep Purchasing y announed an advance in the