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‘ o DETECTIVE VIELDS TO WHITMAN: SET FR STOCK GAMBLING LAID TO MILLER M Che. ' TO-NIGHT’S Weather—FAIR. THE WALL STREET ‘WORLD| Co. (The New York Wortd), NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921. Pont Office, New York, N. ¥. 4 ‘ EDITION - ; [* Circulation Books Open to All. ] - ‘Cireal ition Books Open to All. ] EDI TION : “| VOL. LXI. NO. 21,652—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, by The Frese Fabtlshing Rakeeed oe ueeond-Clam Matter : me fe | = 8 PRICE THREE CENTS Mrs. Harding in New York Just tor a Sh opping Holiday CHARGED Walker Introduces Resolution Calling for Inquiry Into Deals Last Summer, ~ ASKS JOINT COMMITTEE. Hopes to Defeat Miller Plan If All New Yorkers Act Together, By Joseph S. Jordan. (Staff Corressendent of The Evening ALBANY, Fob, 1-—#enzior James J. ‘Walker, minority leader, to-day intro- duced @ resolution calling for a’ legis- Jative Investigation of the New York Stock Exohange. The Senator charged close to the Governor who were in a position to know his traction policy when he was nominated, were impli- eated in the “market rigging” of Inter- borough, Third Avenue Railway and Brooklyn Rapid Transit sgcurities, The Walker resolution would con- fine the investigation to the trading im New York City traction securities Detween July 1 and Nov, 1 last year, when, according to the Senator, violent movements of traction stocks took place in the New York stock market. ‘The Exchange, according to Senator Walker, “would only have been af- fected by the concerted action of cer- tain persons or groups of persons acting by common motive to depre- ciate traction securities.” Two Senators and three Assembly- men would be authorized by the res- olution which was referred to the finance committee, to investigate these transactions. WALKER SATISFIED WITH OUT- LOOK ON BILLS. Bofore introducing his resolution Senator Walker expressed himself as well pleased at the situation regard- ing the transit measures which would Tab the City of New York of its con- trol over its traction lines and placo ft with gas, electric and telephone service in the hands of the up-State Public Service Commission. “We can beat these measures If the representatives of Greater New York will stick together and work as @ unit,” said the New York Senator. “The Democratic members of the de- legation have gone on record against any fare increase and against any (Continued on Eighth Paga) UP GOES THE HAIR, OUT PEEP THE EARS, FASHION DECREES Mere Man Now May Be Able to Distinguish Daughter From Grandmother. BOSTON, Feb. 1.— 66 CXHOW at least the tips of hair” is the advance in- formation on spring styles given out to women by the Ladies’ Hair Dressing Association. Older women may show more of the ear than debutantes and still conform with the new styles, Higher hair dressing also will be the yogue for the clder women, ®arrings in hoop and pendant ef- ects will be favored, ‘on the floor of the Senate that persons | TRACTION STOCK RIGGING ¥ MEN CLOSE 10 MILCER N STATE SENATE PRICE OF SUGAR DROPS 10 6.85 IN WAR OF REFINES American and Federal Com- panies Renéw Rate-Slashing in Startling Way. ‘ After a truce lasting about a month the price war in the wholesale sugar market was resumed to-day, Prices were slashed in startling fashion. Since the inception of the price war nearly six months ago, the Federal Sugar Refining Company, owned principally by the Spreckels family, has been the aggressor. It has been constantly underselling its competi- tors. Chief of these.has been the American Sugar Refining Company. But to the surprise of the sugar trade the American Company first took the offensive to-day. For nearly a month the wholesale Price of refined sugar has been 7 1-2 cents a pound. The American Sugar Refining Company announced shortly after th that it 4 reduced quotations to 714 cents. The Spreckels concern immediately reduced its price one- half of a cent to 7 cents a pound. The American Sugar Refining Company then lowered its quotation to 7 cents, matching the price of the Federal Company, but the latter com- pany immediately dropped its quota- tion to 6.85 cents per pound, less 2 per cent, for cash, and the lowest price sugar has sold since the beginning of jthe war, THIEVES GET BUSY NEAR ENRIGHT HOME While Police Commissoner Sleeps Robbers Loot Three Shops of $11,900 Goods. Within a hundred yards of Police Commissioner Enright's home in Mark's Place, Brooklyn, three burg- laries, with a total booty of $11,900, were |to-day reported to the police of the | Atlantic and Grand Avenue Stations. | The robberies occured last night, but were not discovered until this morning. The thieves entered all the places by spreading iron bars on rear windows, ‘The first place reported entered was the Langdon Specialty Shop, at No, 565 Nostrand Aven where $3,000 worth of dresses, ; suits and lin gerie was taken, Almost directly op- posite, at No, 600, the Siyle Dréss and Skirt House, was robbed $ worth of similar goods, and within a stone's throw, the Rothberg Specialty No, 619 Nostrand Avenue, the stole $3,400 worth of dresses Store, thieves and suits SENATE TO MEET MARCH 4. President Wilson sion on Request of H ASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—President Wilson will call a special session of the Senate March 4 to confirm Cabl- net nominations, it was announced Jat the White House to-day. The session tating the executive Administration and the call wll be j ixsued the request of President- helect Harding, conveyed to the White House by Senator Underwood on the suggestion of Senator Lodge, is a means of uy opening of business to-day) | these start of the new | SEEKS $500 00 “HEART BALM FROM | 'Mrs. Richard Blum, Divorcee, of Arkville, N. Y., Sues for Breach of Premise. Secrecy Surrounds Sudden Ac- tion Brought by Daughter of Prominent Physician. Deepest secrecy has surrounded the $500,000 damage suit for breach of promise to marry which has been pending against Kingdon Gould, old- est gon of George Jay Gould, fer the Dast, two years. Mrs, Elsa. Blum, divorced wife of |Dr, Richard Blum of No. 68 East 83d Street gnd Arkville, N. Y¥., the plain- tiff, Is the daughter of Dr. B, Lef- kovies, who has one of the largest general practices on the East Side and in the Willlamsburg section of Brooklyn. Dr, Lefkovics lives at the Higty-third Street address and has office in the basement of the building at No, 301 East 10th Street. Supp’ementary proceedings begun late yesterday afternoon in the chambers, of Supreme Court Jus- tice Finch, &ho ordered both sides to submit papers by Saturday. With ' the close of the hearing curtains were quckly drawn again over the whcle alfa Not one of the persons con- ted with the case wauld add a single detall wien seen to-day. Counsellor Norman P, S, Schloss, of No. 276 Fifth Avenue, attorney for Mrs. Blum, refused to throw any light upon his client's case, beyond stating no papers in the case have as yet been filed in any court. He sid the matter had been pending for two years. Although jseveral papers have been served and negotiations carried on, there has been no court record beyond that of supplementary proceedings begun yesterday. Mrs. Blum alleges that during the negotiations Kingdon Gould has made several offers of settlement, but have been unsatisfactory. Gould, through his attorney, Coun- sellor Robert B, Knowles of No, 165 Broadway, denies having made any such offers, Ae the Lefkovitz home, a four-story brow stone building on East Eighty- third Street, an elderly woman, when questioned to-day, patiently reiterated to each and every quostion: “I don't know anything.” Inquiries at physician's office on Tenth Street brought no further information, A friend of the physician volunteered that he come to this country 30 years daughter, Mrs, Blum, he has sons and he has lived at the Bighty- third Street address for the last three years. Mr, Schloss submritted to the oourt a statement in which it was alloged that Mr. Gould had been on friendly terms with Mrs, Blum until his mar- (Continued on Second Page.) RIVER AND HARBOR BILL PASSES HOUSE Proposal to Increase Amon. Above 215,250,000 Vota! Down 205 0 120. torday, voted 205 to 120 against in- creasing appropriations for river and year to $28,000,000. It then passed the Rivers and Har- bors Apprepriation bill carrying ump sum appropriation of $16,250,000 KINGDON GOULD BOTH PARTIES SILENT. were the ago from Hungary, that besides his two ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The House harbor work during the next fivcal a try would be for the maintenance and continuance have de DENOUNCE | Minister Simons Threatens to Resign as Protest on Reparations. REPROACHES AMERICA. Complains Because U. S. | Acting Part of a Mere Bystander. a BERLIN, Feb. 1.—The German Cab- inet, which received the text of the Allied note on reparations yesterday, was in secret sesston until late last Right, It ts reported that Foreign Minister Dr. Walter Simons may re- sign. Madness” ig the term leaders of the Reichstag used In discussing the roparations conditions, Dr. Simons declared the execution of the terms would “produce chaos, not only in Germany, but throughout Centra Europe, as the bankruptcy of Ger- many would also bankrupt part Germany's war creditors, among whom is France.” “It is greatly to be deplored,” he continued, “that the great American nation was only a bystander during the negotiations concérning repara tions at Paris. The settlement of this question determines the fate of the world’s economics and of world cul- ture.” Dr. Simons will tell the Reichstag, the Boersen Zeitung states, that ( many cannot subscribe to the Allied reparation demands on the ground that they are not possible of fulfil- ment. ‘The Foreign Minister will explain how the impossibility of reaching a settlement presents itrelf to the Ger- man Government, and will declare that the invitation to Germany to at- tend the conference in London can only serve a useful purpose and give promise of success if the negotiat ons are to deal with tye possible and not with the impossible. It is rumored negotiations are pro- Ceeding with the Majority Sociallsts and German Nationalists for the pur- pose of inducing them to enter the Government in the hope of creating a o united front fram Right to Left. In any event, it appears certain the Majority Socialists will stand firm behind the Government in ts opposl- tion to the Entente demands, even if t.ey cannotsbring themmelves to ac- tually enter the Government. Phe German muri: showed a sharp decline toward the close of yester- fay’s session of the Bourse, when the terms became generally known. LONDON, Feb. 1.—It will be impos- sible for Germany to pay the amounts fixed, says Prof. John Maynard Keynes, principal representative of the British Treasury at the Ver- gailles Peace Conference. He arkues that Germany, to have surplus exports worth £200,000,000, must have total ex- torts worth at least £700,000,000 Twelve per cent. of this amount weuld be £84,000,000, and, therefore, he says, that with £700,000,000 of exports yearly against £500,000,000 in imports, she could just pay a fixed sum of £116,000, 000, plus £84,000,000, making a total of £200,000,000. “That to say." he continues, “trade on this vast scale would be required to pay the mipimum an- nulty of £100,000,000 plus the ex- port percentage. If the Paris propo- gals are more than wind, they mean complete reorganization of the channels of international trade. It anything remotely like them should |really be intended to happen, the reaction on Brilish trade and indus- incalculable. It is an at the Allied leaders should It with each other by using is outrage ¢ of iy | the methods of & poker party,” fad s y ee | 2 —~ CABINET AND REIGHSTAG RESIST ALLIED WAR BILL; , GIRL SHOOTS SEL WHEN TOLD SHE S NOT PROMOTED Heartbroken School Child, 14, Critically Wounds Herself With Father’s Revolver. T AS MADNESS +o 2 BULLETS CRASH SURPRISED AT FAILURE. Pupil Asked Newark Principal If He Had Not Over- In the Bummer Avenue Grammar INTO S. |. TRAIN: HAN SHOT NUP Women Panic-Stricken During jupite to be promoted, Mysterious Attack Near He did not read the name of Stella New Dorp Station. ‘Trana, fourteen years old, No, 8% Summer Avenue. She sat still for a ‘Two bullets, apparently of large! few minutes, then’ went to the Prin- calibre, were fred through the car of ¢lpal to ak if be had made a mis- a swiftly moving Staten Island rail-|take. road train between Grant City and “No,” he said, “you are not to be New Dorp this morning. One man/|promoted this time. Your work has was slightly wounded, women not been quite up to the standard,” screamed and excitement ran high) gh» went home at noon, got her unong the passengers of two of th fathers revolver and shot herself {n our coaches. Singularly enough.!the abdomen. She was taken to the! one of the trainmen knew anything c'ty hospital | it \. ff the ‘shooting until) the tralnigr ae oe ace omen topped at the New Dorp Station. Edward C, Mason, twenty-eight, of Amboy Road, Princes’ Bay, was read- ing beside a window in the smoking car when a bullet crashed through the glass, carried away a portion of his lip and bored its way through the} window opposite. Two seconds later another shot passed through two windows of the second coach, in which were many women, No one was struck by the second bullet, but the passengers, be- jlieving some one of them had been York. BILL TO INSURE PAY OF IDLE’ WORKERS Would Allow $1.50 a Day for Thir-| teen Weeks if Laid Qi or Discharged. MADISON, Wis, Fob. 1.—A bill to compel employers to pay workers when unemployed will be tntroduced in the made the object of an attempted bere cade ee ieee re . prepared b . John murder, became confused as well as R. Commona of the department. of eco- frightened. Some of the bolder peered Jown from windows and were able later to describe to Capt. James Melvor of the New Dorp police, the section from which the shots were belleved to have been fired, | Mr, Mason continued on the train to Princess Bay and was taken to Richmond Memorial Hospital, There it was said the size of the furrow in his Mp indicated it had been made by a .88-calibre bullet. ——$—<»——— SWEDEN REFUSES MARTENS LANDING nomica of the University of Wlaconsin, would require employers to form mutual insurance companies and pay the work- ers they discharge at the rate of $1.50 a day to men and women and one-half that to boys and girls from sixteen to eighteen years. : ‘The unemployed would be entitled to one week for every four weeks of work, with a maximum of thirteen weeks’ in- surance, no strikes or lockouts to count. Farm laborers are exempt SIX IN FAMILY OF TEN DIE. Twe Others Badly Burned When Home Is Destroyed. BARRE, Vt. Fob. 1.—Six of the ten members of the family of Henry Mar- tell were burned to death and two others were seriously burned, when tgire destroyed thelr home at Roches- ter, forty miles from here to-day The d@ad are Louis Marteil, father of Henry Martell, and the latter's fivi children, ranging in age from four to twenty-one years, Mrs. Henry Marteii and one other child are in a serious condition. The latter ta not eapected to live, Soviet nvoy” and 75 Others Ordered to Transship in Harbor at Stockholm. STOCKHOLM, Fob, 1.—Ladwig Cc, A. K. Martens, late Soviet “Envoy” to the United States, his staff and seven- ty-five other deportees will not be per- mitted to land on Swedish soil, thorities announced to-day. The Stockholm, due h will be stopped outside the harbor wher it will be met by a smaller ship into which the Russians will be transferred to continue the journey to Libau, Bolshevik authorities made strenuous forts to obtain visea through Sweden |40 LASHES OF WHIP, 20 YEARS IN JAIL | “FOR HOLD.UP MEN ~—_- $5,009,009 FOR CITY PAVING. mate Board Votes Larke Ap- propriation to Repair Sgreets. The Board of Eatimate hay decided te spend $5,000,000 on pavinus Jobs the five boroughs, This is one of the b gest appropriations of its kind ip history of the city, It ts estimated Manhattan will recelve close to $2,000,- 000 for better st 1 many of the downtown thoroughfares, whore truck traMc is particularly heavy, pave- ments are in bad shape, Many of them were laid more than half a century ago when traffic was much lighter. Delaware Senate Passes Drastic Measure Without a Dissent- ing Voice. DOVER, Del., Feb. 1 , motor HE Delaware State Senate ari “Dry” Hearing at Aaibany Pont- to-day passed a bill mak- ay ing the penalty for highway | ALBANY, Feb. 1-—The hearing on! robbery forty lushes on the bao | prupibition enforsement bilils, acheduled| back fot lew then twenty years | for to-morrow, hag been postpened to imprisonment und a fine of $500. | next Tueadi t the request of Se oF rhe vote on the measure waa | Mullan, one of the introducers, It was ‘announced to-day, | looked Her Naine. | | Mr, Trana is a shoe dealer in New| Reported He Has Been Offered a AUTOMOBILE GRATT TRACED DIRECTLY TO FIEACQUARTERS BY DETECTIVE ARMSTRONG He Is Then Taken Before JudgeCrain,, Who Remits His Sentence of Thirty - Days and $250 Fine—Big Shake- Up in Police Automobile Squad. Detective Sergt. John S. Armstrong, who was committed to the Tonrbs for coatempt of court yesterday for refusing to answer questions before the Grand Jury investigating city graft and who capitulated after a night in a cell, testified before the Grand Jury for an hour and forty ininutes to-day, after which he was purged of contempt. ; | Armstreng was smiling when he emerged from the Grand Jury roon and he sent for his counsel, Thomas |. Sheridan, who asked Charles S. Whitman whether everything was satisfactory. “Very much so,” said Mr. Whitman, who also was smiling, The Grand Jury, accompaniod BY | M’ADOO MAY HANDLE |" Whitman, Sheridan and Arm~- ROADS FOR MEXICO] "22 ives Met into Judes Craists ourt reom, where Armstrong had von committed yesterday, “'Thie defendant has answered sols Salary of $50,000 a Year of our questions in, a satisfactory or Better. manner,” Mr, Whitman told Judo WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Mexico is Crain, “and we desire to examine Riha negotyiting wits \Willlam G. McAdoo to further, I recommend to the comre rehabilitate aud © charge of her state that he be purged of contempt Gaia calttoads, i was Icarned authoritatively that his sentence of thirty days | la MeAdos ta puw Ani Maxi ania/awest the Tombs and $250 fine be remitte. of President Obregon and may stay | A?™strong has promised to hold him- © self in readiness to appear any timo we desire him." # Judge Crain adopted Mr. Whit man's suggestion, and Armstrong parted, at liberty, with his Armstrong’s offer to teacify this morning after a conference wits Mr. Sheridan. He was taken before Judge Crain and said he would ane there indefinitely. He 1s accompanied by his wife and Jouett Shouse, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, now One of the officials of the Mealco and Orlent Railway, projected between Kansas City, Mo. and Guaymas, tn Sonora, ‘The invitation to McAdoo ts looked upon here as a movement by Obregon to gain recognition of this Govern- ment. Obregon, it 1s said, realizes| Wer questions to the best of Bis pe must stabilize Mexico financially | ability } and industrially to get such recog-| Mr. Whitman has learned in his nition, Invewitijra liom as deci! ‘ Mr. McAdoo, It la understood, has] nvemURations, It wae dediered\ Be day, that automobile insurance ad+ Juslers, "instead of waiting for police- men to cal! ‘or rewards for stolen cams, carr cash to Police Head~ trong, it Was said, had at headquarters, where tbe Insurance men amd rewards. This room, 4% was presded over by @ doorman assigned to some one else under consideration an offer calling for his employment for several ata salary of $50000 a year or Bemisia I BALLOT RECOUNT ORDERED. Court Directs Examin: Cast f reme Court Justi A court order was issued to-day «It recting a recount of all the ballots cast quarte A speolal received septed the was said. for Justices of the Supreme Court In| higher in the department, ; the Firat Judicial District on Nov. 2] A drastic shake-up to-day strucl last the Auwmobile Squad, which las for the recount was made by former me Court Just Edward J. MoGoldr who was dofeat- ed for election to the Supremo Court Benoh last, Novern ‘The order directs that the recount of the ballota begin at 10 o'clock on the morning of Feb. 7 at the office of the Board of Elections aad that It continue eah day thereafter “WILL RENT ONLY TO FAMILY; MORE IN IT THE BETTER Landiord Advertises That Man With 12 Chiktren Reat Will Be Almost Nothing. PINE BLUFF, Ark. Feb. PVERTISING his home rent to-day T. H. Ashcraft, Pine Bluff banker, declared ‘The application been one of (he principal points of attack in the Whitman investigation. Detective John Fitzpatrick, who his been head of the squad for six years and has been a detective for fifteen years, was transferred to patrol duty at the West 136th Street Station, ‘Thin means a cut in his salary from $3,400 & year to $2,280. Fitzpatrick has got figured publicly in the Whitman tt vestigation, bs Dotect.ve Sergt, Martin 8, Owens, indictment and suspension charged with accepting illegal fo was transferred to duty in unifons at the Mercer Street Station, his sal- ary belng cut from $3,300 a year tem Sergeant's pay of $2,700. ; | Deteotive et. Armatrong, whose L 4 Akad Who Ww | fying before the Grand Jury to-day, | was sent to the Sinpson Street Sigs ton for duty in uniform. Detective William J. Hussey, who is under i. oO for that the more children in the family of the renter the lower |dictment and suspension, goes to the the price, and that “a man with | Libe Avenue Station, Brooklym, — twelve children can have it on a D ye Thomas Horan, indloted long lease for almost nothing,” and suspended, was tranaferred to " Mr. Asheraft toh Cliain Weak, Moms ania station and Willcom Hemmerick, indicted positively would not be leased to day, gves to the Charles Street: @ family without children.” Saige | 3 ; 4 ¥ ? | é —_—— - —