The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1920, Page 2

‘BiG FACTOR THIS PROFITEERING ? FITEERING CONGRESSMAN IN HIGH COST OF RUNNING GOVERNMENT Anslpiiedtane Disposal of “Clerk Hire’ Fund|U. S. RELIEF WORKER | Notorious Form of Satisty- ing Personal Greed. HIS WAYS ARE TRICKY Expensive Because of Per- quisites, General Inefficiency and Waste of Time. (Special From a Staff Co: dent opt The Evening Worlds ‘WASHINGTON, June 1—One of the chief factors in the high cost of living 1s the bigh cost of Government, Jone of the costliest items in roment expense is the profitper- Go ing Congressman, Tt ten't bis galary of $7,500 n year that makes him expensive. Other considerations figure, namely: His perquisites. ‘ i His general inefficiency. His persistent waste of the time of the Government machi: His failure to exercise hi exclusively vested in him by the Constitution—of regulation of governmental expenditures, which failure is flagrantly illustrated by the members of the present Con- Gress, who took office pledged to reduce taxes and revise taxation laws and have, instead, raised taxes and failed to touch the tax. ation laws. ‘The most notorious form of per- sonal profiteering by Congressmen has to do with their disposition of the money which Congress appro- Priates for the clerk hire of mem- bers. Tt {s no new form of Congressional thrifts It is too old to cause even a sarcastic smile in Washington. But it is a subject on which the home folk who are asked to re-elect Con- ae, may well take into account Minking over the qualifications and characteristics their representa- tives haves shown bof on the job, It is of interest to vhe particula: reyird in certain ‘New York City dis- c Nobody denies that $7,500 a year is Re nen B.neery 3, be. pats $0, ® Man who earnestly and honestly a*. tends to the duties of his office and the thousand and one things outside of his legal duties"which constituents expect of Co! It is not in he ca RR sly of the “cler: surrepti teal” appropriation that ne Congress. man “knocks down” on his ‘employer ried as meanly as the messenger boy who pockets the ca¥ fare given to him that he may deliver his message RESIGNS HIS POST Pierrepont B. Noyes Quits Rhine- land Commission Which Has Been Aiding 7,000 Needy Children. COBLENZ, June 1.—Pierrepont B. Noyes, American delegate on the Rhine- jand Commission, has resigned, and the Americans on that body have with- drawn, in pursuance of a policy by the State Department in Washington which seeks a reduction of American repre- sentation in Europe, according to a statements made by Mr. Noyes. Gen, Henry T. Allen bas received tn- structions to establish direct relations with the Allied Commissioners for all necessary purposes in connection with the government of the American occu- pation area. Mr. Noyes began a month ago to Gis- trfbute food In the American occupation area, and 7,000 needy children are being fed daily. Mr. Noyes asserts this work will not be dropped. He asked to be relieved of his duties several months ago because of personal reasons, but was urged by the State Department go remain in Cablenz. Mr, Noyes will leave Coblenz next sweek and is expected to go direct to Washington to make a personal report. Gen, Henry T, Allen, who will take up hie duties on the Commission, will select the members of the staff he wishes to remain here. Wallace H. Day, of New York, who has acted as Deputy Com- missioner, will stay for two weeks to close all accounts of the American de- partment, ONE KILLED, 5 HURT AS TRAIN HITS AUTO Party of Six Struck at Grade Crossing—Dead Woman a Bride of Three Months. (Special to the Brening World.) NEW LONDON, Conn., June 1.—~ About 6 o'clock this morning an auto- mobile party of six was struck by a New Haven railroad train at Saybrovk grade crossing and Mrs, Clarence Granger, twenty-eight, who was mar- ried three months ago was killed. ‘The others of the party, who were badly hurt, were brought to a New Lendon hospital. ———< Liabilities $47,003; Assets 975. Leo N. Levy, well known Brooklyn real estate broker, living at No. 305 8th Avenue, filed @ petition in bankruptcy to-day in Federal Court, Brooklyn. He ave his liabilities as $47,903.05, and his assets as $75, His creditors are said to ve principally banks. wituy and saunters to his goal foot. PETTY AND TRICKY DEVICES 0} PROFITEERING CONGRESSMAN, The petty and tricky devices of the ofiteering to get into heathen Chinee. Besides his is aalary of $7,500 each member of the House of Representa- tives ix allowed to name a ey secretaries ane shall rece! - t salaries whose total | delegation. F | tice, mated ———— One experienced secretary esti- that there are as high as 300 relatives on the H: rolls, Most of and daughters, who tt except see: on ba pay ‘ays. metimes seen in the prival galleri-y listening to the listed Ww. gli 1s to many of the New York city [i me of these have po- litical parasites at home drawing the 0 | mone} Congressman and another at Sete cierk would get be a Congressman who 40 to the Government by |} around man at and file clerk at bonus), but careful in- Gacioess, im, The total the eres return, The Evening World correspondent, in order to get at the exact facts, tried to gain access to the pay rolls, but found that Clerk W. Tyler Pago of the House, the custodian of these records, was guarding this informa- tion ealously as though it had been private data on the business of & profiteering corporation. “This information is private ane confidential,” saig Mr. Pag ‘lt member does anything wrong, that ts @ matter between him and his con- stituents, t y, Uniil July 3, 1 a rep 000 tor clerical assist- wep shows id over directly mber. ted tor aay part of it, and whatever he was ablo to save, by having cheap clerical assistance or none at all, was regarded as one of the perquisites of the office. Unmarried members have been known in the past to boast of saving as much as $5,000 per year out of th@r salaries by employing cheap help. Some conscientious new mem: bers rebelled. After a strenuous ficht a year ago, it was voted to put the clerical assistants of House member: + on the pay roll, commencing July 1, 1919, Af the same time the total ap- propriation for sali was raised from $2,000 to $3, lus the war bonus of $240 each, wire neither per- ‘son receives as much as $2,500), Many thought the House had purged itself of the reprehensible practice. But bad it? It had not, CONGRESSMEN PUT ME’ OF FAMILY ON PAYROLL. Instead, “the money was kept in the fami Members began at once fo put their wives, daughters, sona, nieces and nephews on the House payroll. This caused a near insur- rectién among the clerical force in the House Office Building, which had been looking forward to increased based .on the generosity of the Tocreasea Appropriation, The secre- taries had not guessed that the lib- erality of [bees roan coe, to a may for “cleri ry gee the ‘th theory that ced Hy home. putting widespread is the practice of “decoys” on the isn't it public information?” sition that not even a member is e: titled to information concerning the manner in ich another member | handles his clérk hire money, That 1s a priv matter and we assume that each member will handle it as best meets his individual needs. Per- sonally, I don't approve of news- papers making publication of these matters. If I gave you this informa- tion, the first thing | knew some member would be bawling me’ on t! floor. Cold displeasure greeted the re- quest for information regarding mem- ders of the New York City delegation | on the ground that World would see that it got to the voters of their districts without cost to the member or the Government. ‘The practice of “knocking down" on clerk hire does not. generally ob- tain in the Senate, The salaries of the clerical assistants of each Sena- | tor, two secretaries and two ngers” are se} .700, $1,840, and $1,440 re. spectivel; including t bonuses, and the duties defin Some—even though a little work’ 18. teo m the drawing of these individual ries. “The clerk hire graft every observer of life at the Capitol, There are others not so obvious, The | Evening World has undertaken to| show in this and following articles! the answer to the question, How much of @ profiteer is a Congrei man?” Among the other items In which the preachers of public econ- omy practise private purse fattening are included mileage, franking and a score of perquisities which come to! @ total which is a highly unpleasant study for the idealist on the inner workings and works of the direct! aroprenaeretiy ee of dear people, ‘mi ately fixed a ry to sala~ The Evening | ts known to| 4 WOOD DELEGATES FROM FLORIDA T0 LOSE IN CONTEST Sub-Comrmitiee 2 at Chicago Reopens Case—Against General’s Men. CHICAGO, June L~Andications at the opening of the contest hearings before the Republican National Com- mittee to-day were that Gen. Wopd would lose another claimed delers- tion-at-large. A sub-committee reporting on the Florida contest, involving three scta Of delegates indicated it would move to unseat the “regulars” pledged to Gen, Wood. It previously eltminated & group pledged to Gov. Lowden, The third group apparently favored was headed by H. L. Agslerson and was designated only as “anti-Wood,." Further time for argument was sranted the two delegations and the committee's first task to-day was tie hearing of a contest from the Dis- trict of Columbia. The Wood delegation from Florida ‘was headed by National Committee- man George W. Bean, and the oub- committee reported this group had violated a State primary law by fa'l- ing to enter the 1918 primaries to name a new State Central Comunit- tee. The black and white question was Involved to a lesser extent in this Anderson's delegation contained sane negroes, In the District of Columbia cun- test the committee voted to seat the regularly reported delegates, Frank J. Hogan and James A. Cobb of Wash- ington, D. C. Committeeman How«ell of Nebraska, characterizing the whole contest as a “disgraceful affair,” sought to have all three delegations thrown out, Out his motion was lost, Those seated are for Wood. Senator George H, Moses of Now Hampshire, Gen. Wood's Hastern campaign manager, announced to- day that a proposed conference of THE EVENING | WORLD, eee JUNE 1,19 PALMER ARRAIGNS - POST SCATHINGLY. AS FRIEND OF REDS iIn Freeing Anarchists of Worst | Type, He Has Nullified | Law, Atty. Gen, Says. WASHINGTON, June 1 (Assoct- ated Press).—Charging that Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor, bad a “perverted sympathy” for the erimina! Anarchist, Attorney Genedal Palmer told a House Committee to- the Government to rid the country of dangerous aliens, Mr, Post had em- ployed a “self willed and autocratic substitution of his own mistaken per- sonal viewpoint for the obligations of the public law.” Mr. Palmer was testifying before the Rules Committee, which ts in- vestiguting fhe official conduct of Mr. Post in deportation proceedings. “Ho has consistently deprived the people of their day in court in the enforcement of a law of vital impor- tance to thelr peace and eafety,” the Attorney General continued. “By his wholesale ja!l deliveries and his release of even self-confessed An- archists of the worst type, he has utterly nullified the purpose of the Congress in passing the deportation statute and bas set at large among the people the very public enemica whom it was the desire and intention of the Congress to be rid of) “He has defied the rules of evi- dence as Iald down by our most re- sponsible courts, has cancelled hun- dreds of legal warrants tssued by his department, entirely without justif- cation, has shown constant favors to violators of the law and their at- torneys. “It is not surprising,” he added, “that Mr. Post, when the opportunity has presented itself in an official way to render a service to those who ad- vocate force and violence, should em- ploy it to the Iimit. He has always Wood managers to decide who shall have charge of the Wood forces on the Convention floor would not be held until after the contest hearings are Napa c ers by the Republican Na- tional Committee, ‘Our interests just now are at the Coliseum,” said Senator Moses. conference can wait until] we hav finished the more, important bubiness out there.” Harry Daugherty, Senator Warren G. Harding’s campaign manager, ar- rived to-day and took charge of the Herding headquarters here. The committee then turned to the Georgia contest, which promised to bo the most sensational of all. The regu- larly reported delegation headed by Henry Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta negro, was opposed by delegation headed by Charles Asaacn of Cedar. ville, known as the Roscoe Pickett fac- |P#! tion. The Pickett faction has been supporting the Wood candidacy, placed Ras BELIEVED HIS OWN LIES. od Swindler, Perjurer and Migamigt. County Judge Dike of Brooklyn t»- day sentenced Warren J. McFarlane to five years in Sing Sing on his recent conviction for grand larceny, Judge Dike said that the prisoner was ao that he had got i the habit a gadition, 0 was “a awindler, parhurer’| and bigam- hd the Ju hy will ing to & and bonds and ertty. pa id will court sale t erty were gee, imag! inery. ‘The ezime for which MoFarlane was convicted way neglecting to turn over the proceeds of the sale of an automobile to Maxon & Richardson of Bedford Avenue. real was the vill the ‘and other prop: TRIED TO SELL MAGISTRATE. Alleged Baseball Ticket Specula: tore Accused by MeQuad Leouls Milenthal of No. 324 West f5th Street, Manhattan, and Max Cohen 9 No. 1252 40th Street, Brooklyn, waiked night into the jaws of the law yesterday when they tried to sell a ticket to the ball ‘game at Mbbets's Field to Magistrate McQuade of Manhattan, Ie handed the alleged ticket speculators over to Detective Winlam Conroy. ‘The men were held to-day by Magis- trate Short in $100 ball each for exam: ination on Thursday, charged with gigket speculatin, he police said 114 were found on them, which they’ es offering for sale at $1.75 “per” as ayainat the box office price of $1.25 wy ews IRISH “ARMY” AT WORK. Seizes a Town wn Hat ad Converts It Inte Barracks, MULLINGAR, Ireland, June 1.—Mem- }bers of the Irigy Republican army in this vicinity constituted themselves guardians of the poace at the loacl ele jong, comamndeered the County Hall the name of the Irish Republic and con- verted it Into « temporary barrack: ‘These guards assumed police duty arrested a number of rioters and Jailed thom in the guard room of the County all. _—— Release Four im Fitspatrick Ma Dennis Reynolds, No, 126 West 47th Isadore Hollman, No, 126 West 47th Stroet; Francis Del Franco, N 256 West 89th Street, and Louis Basile, No, 1H Mutberry Street, were released custody to-day Magistrate in Yorkville Court. "‘Phey hea med with homicide in co with the Thuraday, of Detective Witepatrick, of’ the East Slat tion, sniaccieedeienenitctael D'Anmunsio Reported Ll, GENEVA, June 1.—A despatch re- ceived here from Innsbruck says that Gabriele d’Annunzio ts {Il at Flume j with fever, It is believed the coer jis the #ame as that which recently | appeared among the sailors at Fiume. a d’Annunsto's pection been sympathetic with that sort of thing.” —_———. FIVE-CENT DEPOSIT ON MILK BOTTLES Borden Ca Adopts New Rule for Stores and Restaurants—House- day that in dealing with attempts of | pay A ay Ts eae 0. REVEALS DETAILS -OF PLOT FOR BiG PLATINUM THEFT Prisoner Here Said to Have Confessed After Letters | Were Intercepted. MISS HELEN STAGG BRIDE TO-DAY OF R. REMSEN M’KIM. | Deveiopments in the al steal and dispose of $1,800,00 worth of platinum from the Old Hickory Pow- |der Plans, near Nashville, Tenn. shifted the interest to-day from Nash- ville, where Federal officials have ar- rested H. B. Crone, chief chemist of the Government plant, to the Tomis prison, this city. The arrest of Crone followed the m+ tercepting of letters from Joseoh | and brother of “Johnny | 4@ gangster who was mur- dered some months ago, and reveals | the tangled web the detectives un- wound in trailing the stolen metal. On Apr] @ last Robert Brown, alias Robert Carter and Josegh I redericks | were arrested in their room at the! Times Square Hotel, the theft of $10,000 worth of pow- dered platinum from the firm Roeser & Hasslacher, chemists of ged plot to | Niece Mrs. and Adopted Daughter of | A. B. Benjamin to Be Wed in Hotel Gotham, Miss Helen T. Stagg, niece and| adopted daughter of Mrs Arthur|Perth Amboy, N. J, who had lost Bedell Benjamin, No. 186 Bast séth| $62,000 worth of platinum. In the| Street, will be married this afternoon | room of the two 280 ounces of the| to R. Remsen McKim in the ballroom| metal was found concealed in hot, of the Hotel Gotham, Because of the| Water bottles. The men denied steal recent death of the bridegroom’s|ing the stuff from the Perth Amboy father, only relatives will witness the| chemists and said they had mined ceremony and there will be no re-|!t at Parry Sound, Canada. ception. In the Tombs Carter, who ‘6 a col- |lege man, met and formed a friend- ‘ship with Joe Weller, whd~‘was ‘ awaiting sentence on the charge of | shooting Martha Janof, No. 244 Madison Street, while trying to kill a man known as “Kid” Dropper, | whom he believed to have been the | slayer of his brother, “Johnny Span- | {sh.” Aconting to Assistant District At- |torney Thomas Sheridan, who had | charge of the ease, Carter induced | Weiler to write to the later’s wife, asking her to go to Nashville, see Crone, and obtain some of the “stuff” to be used for raising money to meet Carter's and Fredrickson's legal ex- penses and supply bail. The letters gave other detalis. ‘When Carter leaned they were in- tercepted, say the authorities, he broke down and confessed to the theft of large quantities of platinum from the Nashville plant. Indictment: Charging him with the theft of | charged with! Re, x 5 $200,000 SPENT IN OHIO FIGHT OF WOOD AND HARDING. (Continued From First Pi 2.) tures for Gen. Wood in Indiana. “We spent between $57,000 and| 000, $17,000 of which is in unpald he said, adding that every pre- caution was taken to put the cam- paign management under terms of the Indiana Corrupt Practices law, although “other candidates have hoiders Not Affected. Pairick'D, Fox, President of the Bor- den'’s Farm Products Company, a1- nounced to-day that beginning June 15 his company would require @ deposit of five cents on sach milk Wottle sold to grocery stores und restaurants, No de- posit will be required of householders whose milk is delivered to them, Mr, Fox sald he was forced to ask for the deposit in an effort to conserve metal stolen from the Perth Am! chemists were threreupon quashed and others will be asked by the Tnited States officials. ‘Weller was sentenced this morning by Judge Mulqueen in General Ses- sions, to from three to ten years in Sing Bing. MANIAC IN IN PRISON ATTACKS KEEPER taken the position this law does not | apply to Presidential primaries.” “We estimated that our campaign would cost $35,000," he said, “or rough- ly about $10 a precinct. We found 't necessary to increase the amount as tae campaign progressed. The Re- be organization we thought was 75 to 80 per cent. in favor of any»ody to ‘beat Wood." “A am a little curious that the very bottles, id that because of the critical ¢: rtation situation his company has been finding it extremely difficult to obtain sufficient bdttles. "We lose, in breakage and nomreturns about 8 per cent. of our bottles, We plan to tke same steps to save milk cans, which cost 26 each, jcompared with §2.15 before the war,” idan doses Cc NO MERCY TO “GUN-TOTE: ry One @ Coward, Says Ju i" He imposes Sevove Pen: Jud, Rosalsky in General Sessions to-day sentenced Salvatore Golino, a cook formerly employed in the Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City,, to not less than two-and-half, nor more than five years in Sing Sing Prison, following his conviction for assault in the second degree, In addition, the court fined Golino $1,000, In default of payment, the prisoner is to serve out the fine at the rate of $1 a day. Golino, it was charged, with another man thrust a revolver toward Herman Frisch, cloth- ing manufacturer at No, 174 Allen Street, with the demand that he give them $2,000. 7. said Judge cy to totors SAILORS’ RIOT REPRESSED. A@@itional Guards Hi ed to Wau- ewan Restore Order, GHICAGO, June 1,—Rioting between sailors and marines from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and negroes at Waukegan, a suburb, which for a time threatened to assume serious proportions, was brought under control early to-day after 200 additional provost guards were hurried to Waukegan in motor trucks, A number of shots were fired, but it was not believed any one was hit. Nesto boys stoning automobiles hit the windshield of an officers’ motor car, showering his wife with glass. The per: View bivh Coarged & negro noi & the guests jamaged thi puta “WOMAN IN WHITE” SOUGHT. Beds in ‘Three 6trangely Slain 1) West Grove, Pa. PHILADBLPHIA, June 1—J. Leroy Elchelberger, thirty-three years oki, was murdered during the night as he slept beside his wife in West Grove, Chester County. Mrs, W. KE. Prove am nine-year-old ter Ruth, on a farm a m! from m $e, Eich selber gers, were leo murde yaterious Proman nin wit seen by Mra. Iichelberger aa from the room after iilod. ‘The police a leged woman murderer, Etherest wal seoking the al- Reosevelt more hat | WasHINoTON, Saga A first thing you did was to look up the law to see the top limit of the money you could spend,” said Senator Reed. . “We were up against a Republican organization,” Joss replied, “and that our own hope of success was—" “Money,” Reed broke in. “Let him etate it in his own words,” Pomerene suggested. “Our only hope was in popularizing | Hurls 25-Pound Weight¢at Officer in West Side Jail, but Is Subdued. George Antone, head keeper of the West Side Prison, No, 315 West 53d Street, was on duty in the prison alone this morning shortly before 11 o'clock, when he noticed the lights on the gal- leries suddenly dim and then go out. Running upstairs he was confronted ft by William Klache, thirty-five, an Gen. Wood," Jose continued, electrician, of No. 226 West 25th ‘Arthur G. Davids, Harrisburg, Ul |Seeet, Ki oy eae aes brought ‘before the committee nine checks went by Lowden managers into Missouri. ‘They totalled $38,703.50, all bearing the signatures of L. L.| Emer- son, a Lowden manager. Six checks totalling $32,703.60 were made out to E. L. Morse, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Robert E. Moore, St. Louis, recipl- ent of one Lowden check. testificd next that the check was given him by Jacob Babler, St. Louis, for ex- penses of the Lowden campaign in St, Mold Mr. Emerson and Mr, Babler that no money was necessary for Be- lection of Missouri delegates,” Moore said, “I told them that we mieht tremely powerful. He hurled e 25- pound weight, which he had snat from a nearby scale, at the officer, shouted: “Come an inch nearer to me and I tear you apart ‘Antone jumped at Klache. ‘The latter reached under the scale irew out a length of lead pipe with which he struck at the keeper. ‘The two men were struj ruggling for pension of the 40a pipe when John ‘antry, another keeper, entered ai Kiaohe was subdued. He was taken to the insane ward at Bellevue Hospital. He is charged with attempted grand larceny of a $1,000 check, the property of Nathan 8. Jonas of No, 481 Highth Avenue. phan wits ELIHU ROOT SAILS. corporated, apd 1,-—President eS need it later in the election. 1 took the check for $2,600 and I have eve: cent of it now. I took it intending to use it in the event Mr, Lowden was nominated.” Is that your present intention?” Senator Spencer asked. “No, my present intention is to re- turn it forthwith, When Mr. Babl.r gave it to me and I said I didn’t need it, Babler said: “Oh. go ahead and take it and use it when you need it.” “Didn't that astonish Jake a little Reed asked amid laughter of the con mittee and spectators, fella sis als lane Wins by Default. Justice Joseph Morschauser, in Su- preme Court at White Plains, N. Y., to-day, granted an interlocutory decree of divorce to John B, Lane of Man- hattan. ‘His wife, Mrs, Rose C. Lane, failed to answer the action. Elihu Root galled for England to-day on the Nieuw Amsterdam to undertake his duties as the Amenican member of the Organizing Committee of the Per- manent Court of the ‘League of Nattons. The committee holds dts first meeting in London June 4. ‘With Mr, Root safled James Brown Scott of Washington, formerly a special legal adviser of the State Department, nd two expert apecialists on inter- national jaw. Mrs. Root and Mrs. Gcott accompanied their husbands. Justice O'Brien lorosco Rete Morgan J. O'Brien to-day was named referee in the litigation pending o¢- tween Oliver Morosco, theatrical mi nate, and his wife, Mrs. Annie T. Mor- oxco, before Justice John M. Tierney, in Supreme Court. Both sides assented to the appointment, and three of four motions were withdrawn with the con- sent of both parties, FRESH, FRAGRANT, DELICIOUS ‘“SALADA” ORANGE PEKOE TEA is laden with the invigorating and refreshing qualities that are only to be found in perfect bo Frosh and Pure sivaye. from the Moun- tain T ‘ea wo Gardens. | will be on the spot to answ, WILSON'S NAME NOT TO BEPUT UP AT SAN FRANCISCO | es (Continued From First Page.) structed,” but in the primary it is gaid only the name of Woodrow Wilson was voted for. Some people believe the North Da- kota delegation is duly bound to pre- the name of Mr. Wilson on the first ballot at least. Some of the wor- shippers of President Wilson would ‘be annoyed to have historians note , that im the convention following two terms of Woodrow Wilson, he re- celved the batlot of only one State for a third term, This, it is con. tended, might be misconstrued as an indication of the relative esteem in which the Democratic Convention held its leader. Certainly Mr, Wil-|8n' son's name if voted on by North Da- kota the record would show the usual large number of ballots for the ac- tive contenders like Palmer and Mc- Adoo and a negligible vote for Presi- dent Wilson himself, FRIENDS OF WILSON TO PRE- VENT VOTE ON HIS NAME. To prevent such a situation from arising, friends of the President will see to it that the North Dakota dele- gation doesn’t vote for Wilson on the first ballot. Indeed the present plan is not to allow the President's name to_go before the convention at all. Mr. Cummings leaves for San Fran- [cisco with a full knowledge of the | President's desires. He goes really as the personal representative of the President at the Democratic National Convention. He goes with no plan to dictate the choice of the convention. It is to be a free and independent con- vention, If the judgment of the Presi- dent should be wanted Mr. Cummings questions, There ig only one thing fhe President does want, and that is the selection of @ candidate who can make the fight on the platform that js to be written. He doesn’t want to see a man named who will equivocate or back-track, And whether Mr, Wilson sees fit to address a letter to the Democratic National Convention at the psychological mo- ment, whether he permits his views to be expressed by Homer Cummings who is to be Chairman of the convention itself at its opening, the fact is that there will be enough Wilson men in that convention to carry through the Wilson point of view on the peace treaty. TALK OF REVOLT ON TREATY FADING AWAY. All the talk of revolt at San Fran- cisco on the treaty questions is be- ginning to fade away. Some excep- tions wili no doubt be taken here and there by delegations which have in State conventions shown only @ luke- warm interest in the Wilsonian argu- ment on the peace treaty. But it would be most extraordinary sur- prise and @ reversal of every expec- tation if the Democratic Convention | % did not adopt by overwhelming vote the Wilson platform on the peace treaty. ‘That in itself is said to be all that the. President wishes. He is repre- sented as wishing to remain aloof from the question of personalities. Perhaps if hig own son-in-law, Wil- lium G, MoAdoo, were not a candi- date, it might be different but the President Wilson is too shrewd a politician to influence a convention in which a member of his own family is Interested If Mr. McAdoo were chosen by the free action of the convention, too it would be easier for Mr. Wileon to support him in the campaign. But the interesting thing 1s that the President has not lifted a finger thus far to help Mr. Mcgidoo or any of the other candidates, But should it begin to appear that any but “tried and true” Wilson men are in the lead, it would not be surprising to see the whole Presidential influence exerted rublicly and privately to prevent such a selection. Mr. Wilson's suc- cemor as leader of the party must be @ Witeon man, — $< TO AIR KISSING CHARGES. Local School Board Will Hear Girl's Case Against Principal. Charges that Principal Oliver /Mfor- dorf, of Public School No. 139, Cortelyou Road and East 14th Street, Flatbush, hugged and kissed a fourteen-year-old girl pupll will be the subject of inquiry to-morrow evening in Erasmus Hail High School by Local School Board No. 38. Chairman Arthur G. Dore, Brooklyn newspaper man, will preside. The other members of the committe are the Rev, derick Berg, Mrs. Herman Gott- iret, hare. Matilda O'Connor and Francis KA Sullivan. attorney. ST. PAUL HELD UP | BY COOKS’ STR! Men Refuse to Work on Until Paid Overtime for Last Voyage. Flowers are wilting, baggage is goin askew and the 1,000 passengers of American liner St. Paul have since early this morning in co of a strike in the culinary department which kept the steamer ted up at pier to-lay. ‘The cooks, walters stewards of the liner refuse to #0 sea until thelr overtime for the voyase from here to Southampton and back is paid. ‘Their agreement with the company’ expired on May 1 and they sailed on May 4, leaving the signing of the new agreement to the officers of thelr ¥ The men now claim they were “di crossed” for the clause allowing fifty cents am hour for overtime was omitted. Some of them have as many as fifty and sixty hours overtime du them, it ts claimed. ‘The grievance committee of the unig. was at the pier at the safling hour be} inj men to return to their Endé leave the sottioment of thelr toler bles to the committee, but the men re- fused. The St. Paul has 1,000 passens gers destined for Buropean ports. 9 paniodebbn-ihcheen SAYS MRS.O’DELL ADMITTED KILLING Stepmother of Convicted Slayér Breaks Down on Stand at Rochester Triah ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 1—The defense opened to-day in the trial of Pearl Beaver O'Dell for the murder ef Edward J. Kneip. The first material witness was Mrs, Ella M. Arnold, step mother of James L. O'Dell, husband of the defendant, now under sentende df death for the murder. She broke dow: In a fit of weeping for her “poor boy. gnd had to be excused for the time be+ ing. District Attorney Love brought from the witness contradictions of her teatt= mony given before the Grand Jury, of her story as given on the night Mi O'Dell and her husband were arrest He forced the admission that on morning following the murder had come to her bedside and, sitting a the bed, had said: "Well, 1 fntehed "Asked what she had done tha’ replied: ‘Well, he wa ‘ullin eee HELD FOR AUTO CRASH? ‘Treptow Also Accused of Ranstak Down Cripple While Intext Charged with reckless driving while under the influence of liquor, William ‘Treptow of No. 116 West 63d St was held in $1,000 Bail to-day by M trate John E, McGeehan in T Court for the Court of Special sions, Treptow is aleged to havg truned from Braodway into 87th, Street at a high rate of apeed early Sunday morning, and to have smashed a cab, wrecking it and Injuring hi and his companion, Miss May Keil! twenty-one, who gave her address 184 Eighth Avenu ‘The police also sccusse ‘Treptow hitting George | Lilkenden, who" waa crossing. broadway” at {10 "The automobile threw Litkens ack and breaking what remained of Just above the knee. As Mich nave teen unebie co” identity Mreptow as the driver of the car that struck the cripple. TORONTO, Om, June 1.—Ofrs, AL J, Small to-day offered a reward of 350,00 for information leading to the disca ery of her husband, Ambrose J. & theatrical magnate, if all alternative reward of $15, for it: formtion loading to the discovery ‘of hi body, if dead. He disappeared on D on he had deposited a chy Included, NOVEL cnoas PECs Baton tre AND x ‘8H. AND KID EARER GO SHORT & MEDIUM V VAMP SH jy SHOPS, INC, 20 W. 38th ST, path Are. ove Tips Lt ALY OF sUEDE ces of the ty mn MILK CHOOOLATE Novi Sieh 8 3 Our Big Daily Special for Wednesday, June 2, RCIT GUMS—1 catia nig ied te Se fas cae Creme ‘De De Mea the" flavers 3 anil are presented in POUND BOX