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| Pact Executed Only 15 Min- John R. Spears AMERICA’S GREATEST YACHTING AUTHORITY to Describe Cup Races for The Evening World a {Circulation Books Open to All.” EDITION AMS! NATE BMS SAS VOL. LXI. NO. 21,479—DAILY, ht, 10: ‘The F oe mrtg: ESS fe Ral Gedynne NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY Fntored ae Second-Class Matter Post Office, New Yorks Ne Ys GERMANS, PROTESTING, SIN. REWARD 1,0 AGREEMENT TO DISARM IN| EERE G MONTHS ON ALLIES TERMS utes Before Time Limit Set ‘by Council Expired, BERUIN MADE DECISION. Vote in ‘Cabinet Unanimous After Leaders in Reichstag Had Been Consulted. SPA, Belgium, July 9 (Associated Press'—Germany's delegates signed at 11.45 o'clock this morning an en- } Bagement accepting the terms of the - Allied note relative to disarmament a presented yesterday. ‘This action was taken under protest by the German representatives, The ANted note, which amounted vertually to an ultimatum, demanded that the Germans accept the terms presented by noon to-day, and stipu- lated that, in the event of the Ger- mang falling to carry out the pro- visions of the demands, Ailled forces would occupy parts of the German Empire, ‘According to the terms imposed by the Allies the disarmament is to be completed in six months, the army being reduced to 100,000 men. On Oct. 1 the strength of the Germap army shall not exceed 150,000 men. Failing such reduction the Allies were to occupy the Ruhr district, It > Was against this clause that the Ger- mans protested most strongly, The Germans protested, in signing the engagement, that the Treaty of Versailles did not oblige them to ac- quiesce in further territorial occupa- tfons except for fallure to fulfil the ' treaty terms regarding reparations, * possible The decision of the German Cabinet to oboy the Allied demand was reached at an early morning session to-day, the vote being unanimous, The vote was taken after a telephone communication with Reichstag leaders in Berlin approving the acceptance and communicating the desiro of the Reichstag and party leaders for the Cabinet at Spa to use its own judg- ment, A unanimous decision was also tak- en by the Cabinet that the Allles should be informed that Germany could not accept these stipulations concerning occupation of the Ruhr and other territories, provided the disarma- ment was not executed according to the Allies’ judgment It was held the German Cabinet was precluded by constitutional reasons from entering into any such arrange- ment without the authority of Parlia~ ment. Hence the Allies are requested tp strike this paragraph from their mand, it being sald that otherwise the Germans might not be able to con- tinue the conference, © The protest made by the Germans Classified hivminase CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements RANCH OFFICES CLOS' BEFORE 6 O'CLOCG Positively no Classified Advertise. monte will be received. for The Sunday World after 6.80 P. Advertising copy for The Gunday World should beth The World omes ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION FIFTEEN IN PERIL AS SCENIC RAILWAY DRIVER 1S KILLED ‘High Plunge Averted by Pas- senger Who Stops Wildly Running Train, A three-car train on the L. A. Thompson scenjc railway, Coney Is- land, was near the top of the ride at 2 o'clock this afternoon when the ‘brakeman, riding between the first @nd second cars, leaned too far out and fell, He struck the track 25 feet ‘Delow and was instantly killed. The accident brought immediate peril to the fifteen passengers in the train, which was now running wild. But one of them had enough wit and | mechanical knowledge to meet the situation. He climbed from the rear car forward to the brake and brought the train to a stop in time to Avert disaster. His name was not learned. ‘The brakeman killed was Abraham Goldsmith, 24, of No, 118 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn. Two women passengers became hysterical, but a third, according to the switchman, took the accident cooly. From their position they could not see the driver's body after it left ‘the car, The accident is the first of this sort at Coney Island this seagon to result fatally. Goldsmith lived at No. 113 Harrison Street, Brooklyn. The switchman, signalling the tracks clear, piloted the car around the remainin gdips to the platform, ‘The passengers disappeared and the policé were unable to find any of them as witnesses. ‘The police blame the dead man. PRESIDENT PREPARES CALL. Meeting of League of Nai jembly in Geneva or Bra WASHINGTON, July 9—The call to be issued by President Wilson for the first meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Novem- ber {s now {n preparation, "It was sald to-day at the State Department, and will be issued within a short hime. It 8 understood that the meeting will be held either at Geneva or ‘Brussels. ee = ROSS WON'T AID SHEVLIN. James Shevlin, Prohibition Enforce- ment Agent in Manhattan, made appli- catio# to U, 8, District Attorney Ro: at Brooklyn for # supply of forms bear- ing M. Koss's signature and directing men charged with violation of the Pro- hibition Law to call at the District At- torney’s office. tends Possibly Mr. Shevlin in- to change in some cases the rocedure, which has been to hold sged violators in custody until they furnished ball. ‘The requested forms would be practically summonses, District Attorney Ross declared he did not intend to make it possible for “irre- sponsible persons” to obtaln blank forms bearing his signature. No Trace of Drowned Woman's Identity, Although the police have been trying since July 2 to identify the body of. « woman about forty years old, found in the Hudson Kiver off 118th Street, they have been unable to find family or ends, The woman wore a ring with inttals C, M. Gand her d handkerchief bore the rick. ——~» = CRANT, ues AER's, 1920,— Soe mackerel. mars dba oes wale, dressing. atinor, Sie sich ows, Werld Building: enalilpeaiinnt Boat Picked Up by a Tug Near Saybrook, Conn., Not (Blake’s. , OTHER CLUES TRACED. “Lost Battalion” Leader Heads Search for Broker, Who Disappeared a Week ‘Ago. A reward of $1,000 for the recovery of the body of James Rpbert Blake, missing stock broker, was to-day of- fered on behalf of the Blake family by Col, Charles W, Whittlesey, com- mander of the “Lost Battalion,” who as attorney for the family isin charge of the search, This reward ts’ in additton to the $100 offered for in- formation regarding the boet which he was last seen alive. ‘The seardh for Mr. Blake, of the brokearge firm of Abbott, Hoppin & Company, of No. 120 Broadway, miss- ing since jast Friday, when he rowed away from the Daun boatyard at Classon Point on the Westchester Creek, was continued by detectives, police and business associates. J. G. Steigerwald, a merchant, who spent the week-end at Saybrook, Conn., to-day reported that a tug of the New York and New Haven Trans- portation Company picked up a drift- ing boat near Saybrook Saturday morning. Detectives who inspected this’ boat found that it did not correspond to the Blake launch. A woman of Say- brook then, telephoned information that another boat said to resemble the Blake launch, had been discovered near Saybrook. Detectives went to investigate this clue. From Rockaway came still another report of a launch said to answer the description of Blake's, Men were sent at once to inspect the boat. Mr. Blake was not missed until Tuesday. His wife belleved him de- tained in New York on ‘business and his business associates here thought that he was with his family at Fish- er’s dsland, off New London, Conn., where Blake bad announced he in- tended to go. ‘When ho left his office last week Mr, Blake carried with him some per- sonal trinkets, a watch, engraved with his initials, a gold football engraved “J. R. Blake, 1880," a silver cigarette and match safe, both marked with his initials, He had $200 in money. He went directly to the Clason Point boat yard, where he, intended to take over the launch which had been built for him by Thomas Flem- ing Day. His plan was to have the engine installed end then navigate in (Continued on Second Page.) eagle MORE SUGAR, BUT PRICES REMAIN UP Cost to Consumer Not Likely to Come Down For Long Time, Expert Declares. WASHINGTON, July 9.—The sugar supply ts increasing, but there fs little prospect of a decline in prices for a long period, Dr. C. O. Townsend, sugar expert of the Agriculture Department, sald to-day, The United States at the best only grows about 25 per cent. of its needs, he added. ' “This year sugar growers planted one of the largest beet acreages tn its his- tory, afid the cane planted fa about the usual acreage, Beeta planted for sugar this year, total more than 900,000 acres. “This large acreage and good condi- tions will not lower the price of sugar, but ft will probably make sugar caster to purchase,” i qrdl®, WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. yg Pitan ate Buin carbon, ed Soe eas ond Serie sy, 7 Youthful Novelist to Tell New Yorkers(All About TheirCity, Especially the Subways. Horace Atkisson Wade, America’s youngest novelist, who at the age of eleven has already published one successful book, “In the Shadow of Great Peril” and has three more novels ready for the press, arrived in New York last night. He came at the invitation of The Evening World, and while here will describe “Life In a Great City” as seen in the whirlwind tour of Coney Island, the Polo Grounds and the Statue of Liberiy that he has mapped out for the next few days, Horace's impressions, hot from the young author's pen, will be published exclusively in The Evening World, ‘beginning to-morrow, and he plans to te New Yorkers some things even they themselves do not know about their city. “Gee—this is some town!” said Horace on arriving at the Ponnsyl- vania Station, “How far is it to Coney Island, and can we go there to-night?—Oh say, can we ride in the subway going there? ‘That's on@ thing I want to do first of all—and say, don't you think we better ‘5d somewhere and eat first? I've trav- eled all the way from Washington and only had somé apples and bananas and things on the train. At the Hotel Pennsylvania Horace ordered a modest dinner of Boston baked beans, buttermilk, green apple pie and lemon water ice—all very g00d for growing toys, he explained —and then proceeded to tell of his adventures since his first novel was Published last fall. Ho Is the son of E, L Wade of Chi- cago and Mrs, Wade, who le Horace's best chum and whom he affectionate- ly calls “Honey,” accompanies him on this tour of exploration of the East, ‘He was once enamored of Mary Pickford, whom he met in California, and was chummy with “Doug” Fair- banks. But since “Doug” up and married Mary, who had promised to "wait for’ Horace, he says he's “off Fairbanks for jife.” When Horace wrote “In the Shadow of Great Peril" novel he had never seen New York. Hence the reader must not be surprised to find that, leaving his hotel, the hero chases the villain for several miles until “they came to the fishermen's huts along the ocean,” nor must he ponder over the fact that at the hotel “the dinner bell rang and all the boarders came down for dinner.” A clearer but none the less thrilling pic- ture of New York will be given in Master Wade's Evening World stories, “Some town,” sald Horace, “why, here we walk right out of the station (Continued on Third | Page.) ros Nae ais COX AND LEADERS TO CONFER JULY 20 Candidate Receives Telegram From ‘Chairman Cummings ‘Announc- ing the Date, DAYTON, 0., July 9—The frat tm- portant conference to arrange Demo- cratic party campaign plans will be held here Tuesday, July 20, according to @ telegram received to-day by Gov. Cox from Homer $ Cummings, ehair- man of the Natlonal Committee, Mr, Cummings's telegram stated that he has called a meeting of the entire National Commitee for that date, Mr, Cummings telegraphed he had callody the National Committes to as semble at the Hotel Miami, Dayton, at 11 o'clock A. M. July 20. “hia will Jenable us," he sald, “to proceed in a |body to Trall's nd if this accords with your wishes, A few o€ the comiiate: |will provably arrive in town tho day before. 1 expect to follow that cours aa there ara yarlous matters 1 like to have an of |with you peraonalls } Chairman Cummings asked th erner to suggest any programme If he indicated that \eatisfactory to him. Walling or Costello, HORACE WADE, AUTHOR AT tt HERE FOR THE EVENING WORLD; TO WRITE HIS IMPRESSIONS |11-YEAR-OLD AUTHOR TO WRITE ABOUT N.Y. FOR EVENING WORLD HORACE A, WADE. GUNMEN HOLD UP O HOTEL GUESTS AND PROPRIETOR Four of be a Thieves Masked; the Fifth Captured Is Iden- tified and Confesses. While five guests of the Delaware House on Barclay Street, near the Lackawanna Railroad depot in Patcr- son, N. J., were sitting on the porch about midnight last night, five armed men, all but one of them concealing his face with a handkerchief, ordered them into the barroom of the hotel There at the point of revolvers they held up the mon, Nicholas Ruffiig, proprietor of the hotel, came down- stairs and he too was held up, The bandits took a $400 diamond ring and $76 tn cash from the proprietor, $75 from the cash drawer, and gold watches, jewelry and money ost!- mated at $1,600.. As the bandits fled, one of them knocked down and kicked Herport Colvin of No, 165 Barclay Street. Fred Walling of No. 132 Spring Street, and Eugene Costello of No, 333 Clay Street, were arrested, ‘The police say that Walling confessed after he nad been Identified by Colvin as the man who had assaulted him, Walling, it is sald, was not masked at the time of the hold-up, The police say they have a description of the other thro men, No charge has been made agninst Four other men Mhave been taken into custody, but thelr namos are withheld by the police. DEER RAID JERSEY FARMS. Raccoons and Habbite Also Wreak Havoc in Fie BELVIL N, J, July 9—Deer, foxes, raccoons and rabbits are creat- ing havoc among the truok farms in jthe vicinity of Oxford township, Mra {Margaret Vallerahump saya deer are destroying her frult art vegetables Other animals are damaging her truck patch, |. She and other farmers have appealed to the to afford relief from the dep Snakes, alec numerous, A five foot blacksnake was killed this week. ims TO MEET LEGISLATORS ON NEW RENT RELIEF Changes to Be Suggested to Make the Laws More Effective. EXTRA SESSION TALK. Committee Will Decide Whether to Call on Gov- ernor After Meeting Here. All Munictpal Justices will be in- vited to confer'with the Senate and Assembly Committees on Housing to | Suggest changes to make the rent lawa more effective, according to Sen- ator Lockwood, who held a conference with Senator J. Henry Walters of Syracuse on the matter yesterday. The meeting will be called in this clty before the end of the month, “We will determine from the facts presented whether or not it will’ be | advisabla to suggest a apecial session of the Legislature to amend the rent laws,” said Senator Lockwood. "I think the laws are as rigid as they However, we shall eee what can be done to bring a more uniform inter- pretation of them. “Of course, tho-laws must be such bavi @ great deal of discretion is left te shall make a complete survey of the benefits of the rent laws. We he also try to determine where they @ tailed. From these statistios we mal batereas we what changes should be made, if any.” IeGieiane the committeemen to be are Senator James J. Walker Te Assemblymen McWhin- ney, Adler and Donohue, Municipal Justice Frederick Splegel- berg when asked if he thought a special session of the Legislature to amend the rent laws would be adviea- ble, said at his home in Great Neck, L. be: “I think the laws in themselves are all right, Of course we could make them more rigid if it were not for the danger of having them declared unconstitutional. The main difficulty has been in their interpretation. A great deal of misinformation has been spread about them and some Judges have not understood them. But I think in the case of the Justices this is rapidly righting iteelf and after a litthe more forrect interpretations will be arrived at, “What we really need !s to encour- age building and a law should be en- acted to encourage mortgage loans. The opinion of Justice Jacob 8. Strahl of the Fourth District Munict- pal Court, Brooklyn, that a new ten- ant has the same right as to rent increases as an old one, has opened a new phase of the rent laws, And persecuted tenants will be glad to know that well informed lawyera be- Meve the decision will “stick.” Senator Lockwood said when shown Justice Strahl’e decision: “1 think Justice Strahl has reasoned the case out well, and I am gure it will be sustained if appealed. It is my belief the laws apply to the apart. ment and the value thereof and a ten. ant does not have to remain in a house @ whole year to get the bene- fits ‘of the provision against profiteer- ing. "Justice Strahl has made a dect- sion which will be far reaching tn its consequences next October, when there will be such great need to curb profiteering landlords,” The landlord, Harry Adelman, with three other owners doing business as the F. A. L. Realty Corporation, No. 1187 Bodford Avenue, Brooklyn, de- clared he would not appeal tho cases, as he believed the de ~ > 822 Men's @ Young Men's Sulls, ®14.05, ‘The “HUB Clothing Comer, tro Barclay st. (Oppose Woglworth Building: for to-day and Saturday, 3,100 Sen's aad Young Meo’s Sulla genuine Palm Weach and Cool Clon Kenyon make, blues, plaids, browns, fand fancy mixed, si! slaee, 32 (0 PRICE TWO CENTS “EVEL REPORTED TRAILED BY RIGH MAN WHO FOUND HE HAD GIVEN WIFE MONEY. Investigators Believe “Pension, List” Shows How Turfman Gotj Women in Power—Whiskey Sold, Porter by Barnes Seized in For- mer’s Home The-hunt of the authoriti for the secret of the murder of Joseph B.’ Elwell, whist expert and turfman, on June 11 in ‘his home at ‘No, West 70th Street, has again ranged back to the most minute examination, of his easy-going relations with women. What has been known to the men working on the case under ‘~ 244. tpt.” Carey of the Detective Bureau and under District Attorney Swann as {het Pension List, ’ ‘has come in for particular consideration. Several « if earlizr clues to the murder which have ‘been laid aside, if not disc.sded,. involved a study of Elwell’s financial affairs. It was needful to know’ - whether he was in debt, had been uttering checks for “kiting,” had mades or received large sums of money in transactions in bicseris horses org card games, AMERICANS WIN DAVISCUP SETS AT EASTBOURNE Jotinston and Tifden Get Easy * Tennis Victories Over French Players. EASTBOURNE, England, July 9.— William M. Johnston of California defeated Andre Gobert of France in the first elngles match between the French and American Davis Cup lon would hold, |! peice for day and Saturday, 614.05 and $17.05, Saturday (, tur 10 Conlon, Brvadway, corner tennis teams hero to-day. The score was 6—8, 86, 6—3, ‘The match, which was interrupted yesterday by @ rainstorm, was re- sumed under much better conditions to-day. ‘The court was reasonably fast as a result of clearing skies. ‘When play wae suspended yester- day Johnston Jed Gobert 48. He maintained thty advantage to-day and ran out the first get without’ losing another game, William ‘T. Tilden of Philadelphia won the second singles tennis match in the Davie Cup elfmination matches here to-day from William H, Lau- rents of France. After the French- man hud captured the first wet, Til- den took the next three seta and the match. MOTHER KILLS SELF AND GIRL; BOY LIVES Depressed and Ill, Policam)n's Wife Takes One Child in Lap and Turns on the Deadly Gas, After her husband, George # police- man at Glendale, had left the house to- dey, Mrs. Hannah Eckert, of No. 57 Carter Street, Elmhurst, L. 1, eleanod up the room and dressed her two chil- dren in thelr best,. She sent the boy, Edward, ten years old. on an that would take about half a d kept with her the little «itl, Hazel, yebta Chl, and teom her [nto the kitoher Where she had arranged a rocking chalr with cushions, d doors and wit Nth ges inthe fF und took Hazel and child were rand fhe In this study the authorities learned, that Plwell was tn tho habit of send- 4 Ing sums of from $50 to #00 enche month to numbers of women, some off, whom were married to men of suf- flclent means to meet all thelr propel, weds, ; ‘Thene discoverios gnve some cory rdboration to vague rumors heard” among his club and race track azso% clates immediately after he was shot? to the effect that he had @ settled routine of ensnaring women who at~ tracted him—first engaging their at« tention by appearing shy and abashed in their presence, adoring from # di9-> tance, the mean time talking volubiy- of his admiration to persons who; would carry back his words; nex wetting the women in bis power with? large loans to cover gambling losses in the games in which he saw to it‘ only too certainly that his fair pari: ner lost, and finally by hie “pensiow allowance,” keeping the woman under obligations by enabling her to have Pocket money, emall or considerable, of which the other members of hert family knew nothing. REPORTED ONE HUSBAND LEARNED OF MONEY GIFT. ‘Tho present work of the detectives, 1s Dent toward learning the truth of rumor that a wealthy husband learned} | of the cashing of one of .Etwell’ny checks by his young wife, forced a confession from her, told what he had iscovered to his wife's father ur, brother and that these men set out» deliberately to study Biwell's habits of lif until they were prepared to send one of thelr number into his, home in the hours before breakfust, {et him tow what they thought a¢ htm and shoot him. Probfbition enforcement agents whe have Deen investigating reports that Ehwell was intereated in tha {illctt sale of whiskey will to-m: ww Te~ examine William B, Barnes, steward, of the Studio Chib and Secretary to; Elwell, H. H. Porter, President of the, American Waterworks Company, No,/ 60 Broad Street, was to-day examined in the office of his counsel, ex-Judge W, M. K, Olcott, at (No. 170 Broad.’ way, by August Hassenflug, Special Counsel for the Prohibition Enforee- | ment Bureau. He was testifying, under oath and admitted that ebx weeks ago he bought four cases of, whiskey from Barnes, ‘The whisteag was not labelled, Immediately after his a Prohibition agents went to, his home, No, 4 Park Avenue, where they” confiscated the whiskey, he, Ae