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“4 _* — Pe ay * To-Night’s Weather—RAIN, EDITION WARMER. WALL STREET Che | Circulation Books, Open to All. | VOL. LXI. NO. 21,657—DAILY. Copyright, 1021, by (The Ni ‘The Press Publish! w York World), NEW yo \RK, MO NDAY, FE BRUARY 7, B SURPLUS ‘SUB’ ELECTRICITY WOULD END FARE RAISE TALK BUT HYLAN SILEN Shonts, in an Unpublished Interview for The Evening World in 1918, Went Thoroughly Into Fare In- crease and Necessity of Consider- ing Sale of Power as a Dovetailing Propositic.1. By Sophie ‘The question is asked by Speaker Machold of the State Assembly, “Why should there be any such ‘p: company and at the city’s expense?” ‘The answer to this question was furnished by the late Theodore Shonts, President of the Interborough, in a si immediately following a conversation printed for the first time. I had sought an interview with of the city selling electric power from the subway power plants as a poten- tial source of revenue of remarkable magnitude, the city becoming a partner in the subways in January, Mr, Shonts insisted that the prob- lem of the city selling electricity and the rates on the subways dovetailed, and that if the power in the city owned subways were sold to manu- facturers “and consumers that the revenue thus derived would not only reduce the city’s debt but would help ) pay the “preferentials” required by the Interborough in the dual subway contract, to say nothing of the enor- mous saving to consumers of elec- tricity. He urged The Evening World to help rouse public opinion toward this end, and at that time this newspaper eet forth the facts. Mr. Shonts pointed out to me how ever a billion kilowats surplus of electricity annually are available in the new partnership proposition. He showed me how for years the Interborough Railroad has built up the largest potential electric power producing machinery in the world, in which the city is now a partner. MORE THAN ALL PUBLIC UTILI- TIES COMBINED. This available Dillion kilowats amounts to more production than all the electric power produced by all public utilities under Lhe supervision of the Public Sesy.ce Commission, in- cluding the Edison Companye Efforts have been made from time to time by private corporations to purchase this surplus power from the Interborough Company. ‘This surplus, Mr. Shonts told me, cost approximately 1% cent at the most. A 4-cent kilowat hour prico +o (Continued on GOES WITH BROKEN LEGS TO BURY WIFE shth Lage.) Shock From Accident to Husband Had Killed Mrs. Richardson of Passaic. (Special to ‘The Hrening Wor BUFFALO, N. Y¥., bob, 7—With eth legs broken neur the ankles, Mahlon M. Richardson of Passaic, aie body N. J. came by train from t to Batavia yesterday w the of bis wife, She had died from the shook when her husband was carried nto the house afier an accident In Passaic on Wednesday Mr. Richurdson went to St Church, where the funcrai rervic were held, and then to the eomoetery He was hurt when a fourteen-foot ladder, on which he wus standing, repairing a belt, slipped, letting him fall to a conerete floor, 3 YEARS Trene Loeb. referential’ contract in favor of the ignificant memorahdum which I made with him on Dee. 23, 1918, which is Mr. Shonts to discuss the possibility 1919. ‘ FRENCH THREATEN 10 SMENBER GERMAN NATION “Guilty and Must Pay,” Says Briand — “I Will Not Change Terms.” PARIS, Feb, 7—Complete dismem- berment of the German nation if she accept her punishment was threatened by France to-day. “E will not move one millimetre from my position,” said. Premier Briand, “Germany was guilty. Ger- many must pay.” French officials indicated there was serious pressure upon them to let Germany bluster and bluff over the reparations, then descend upon the former empire and exact the indem- nity demanded by taking possession of German territory. “There are many Frenchmen whose greatest desire is to see German cities in ruins just as our own cities were demobiished by the German inva- sion,” a French official said. “Nothing would please this element more than to sce the allied agreement on repara- tions torn to bits while a French {army is sent into Germany to take possession of land and property to repay France for what she lost.” French officials admitted they were unable to determine now whether the uproar in Germany over the Allied demands was a bluff or really the \prelude to a situation which might | justify the nation in unsheathing the | sword. |} High officials declared Allied gov- ternments were considering the possi- [bility and that the proposed London conference never will be held if Ger- many continues her course, WEST SIDE SUBWAY BLOCKED Southbound Express Goe During Rush Hi Thousands of residents of the upper j dees not “Dead” west side were delayed in getting to Liesiess this morning after a south- ‘Sonnd express train on the Broadway- Seventh Avenue tine “weat a at the 18lst Street station during the rush Hour, The line north of t8ith Strect, | where the locais terminate, } yzed for half an hour. Muny passengers rode crosstown and came down on the east side subway, was paral- | PRICE PLOT IN IRO N AND COA HUBBY WITH 10 MEN IN RAID FOR MAID WHO WAS HIS BRIDE \lbohn Family of Scarsdale With Whom She Lived, ‘Fought Hard to Retain Her. BATTLED HALF AN HOUR. Girl Is Whisked Away as Marauders Fire a Parting Volley of Shots. A party of armed men, estimated to number about fifteen, forcibly carried away Anna King, a servant and com- panion, from the home of Louls Al+ bohn in Scarsdale, N. Y., shortly be- fore midnight last night and bore her off in a motor car, But before they succeeded in taking her, seven of the men had a rough and tumble fight with the members of the Albohn fam- ily in which shots were exchanged, but no one hurt beyond a few cuts and bruises. One of the abducting party, ap- parently the leader of the gang, claimed that Anna King was his wife and for that reason he had come for her. He said his name was Walter Josephs. At any rate, when he or- dered Anna to get her hat and coat and “come along,” she obeyed with- out question. Now the Scarsdale and White Plains police are looking for her with, they admit, little chance of finding her. Anna, who is nineteen years old, was in the employ of the Albohne for three years prior to last July. Her parents, known to the Albohns, were named Dresmeyer and lived at 155th Street and Cortlandt Avenue, the Bronx, But in July Anna loft ‘her employment and nothing of her whereabouts was known to the Al- bohns until this December, when word came from the police of Al- toona tit she was being detained by thetn as a “suspicious person.” In response to this notice Mr. Albohn wrote that if the police didn’t mind he would take her back in his house- hold. So in a day or two he sent the money for her railroad fare, and early in January she was again es- tablished in the Wibohn home, which is at Sprague Avenue and Johneon Street. While Ana was in the kitchen, near midnight, three men came to the front door, and in reply to the (Continued on Second Page.) Se NATION ASKED U. S. TO CANCEL LOANS Secretary Houston Admiis It to Senate, but Won’t Say Which One. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 Houston disclosed to the. retary Senate diciary Committee to-day that ‘one nation” had requested the United States to cancel Its war loan to that power. “What nation? demanded Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri “I prefer not to say," Mr. Houston | work and to take the consequences of NEW NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONCESSIONS TO)PACIFY IRELAND Hope Ulster Will Persuade South to Accept and Work Under Partition. MAY FREE PRISONERS. Reputed Full Fiscal Autonomy to Both Sections Is to | Be Offered. | DUBLIN, Feb. 7.—Beliet is growing that an important development may come to light when Parliament recon- venes, looking to a settlement with Southern Ireland. According to one report, the Gov- emment is trying to bring the Ulster leaders into line with a well formu- lated scheme to persuade the South to accept the partition provided for in the Home Rule Act and work under it, ‘This version of the reputed plans has it that the prize to be offered for acceptance is a grant of full fiscal autonomy to both gections of Ireland, This would be coupled, it is said, so far as the South is concerned, with.an offer to release the political prisoners and grant amnesty to Irish Republl- cans generally, including members of the Irish Repablican Army, and even men “on the run,” Negotiations to this end are report- ed to be now proceeding between Mr, Lfoyd George, and Sir Edward Carson, Ulster leader in the British Parliament. Concessions are said to be contemplated with regard to the amount of taxes payable to England under the new act. It is reported from Belfast that one constable was killed and two others wounded by the explosion of a Domb thrown at them while they were on duty at Wurrenpoint, near Dundalk, last night, The formation of town guards is being enforced in the martial law area of West Cork by Gen, Strick- land. Leading townapeople are being called on to form guards voluntarily and take the rewponstbility for all at- tacks or ambushes within a mile of the town. Threats are made that if not volun- tarily joined men will be conscripted between the ages of seventeen and forty-five for such services, Refusal will be regarded as an offense. The idea is the guards should report all suspicious movements and prepara- tions for ambushes to the military or police, but the popular inclination is to reject such work as being spy such refusal. Law and Order Party Reported Ac- tive im Ire! LONDON, Feb, 7.—The Sunday Tel- egram, owned by Horatio W. Bot- tomley, editor of John Bull, serts the existence of a third party in Ireland “concerning itself with ex ecuting justice, according to its own views, on any persons who commit alleged crimes and escape punisb- ment.” The newspaper says the party is (Continued on Second Page.) pues oe IRISH COMMANDER | had obtained $200,000 early in 1920. He added that the Ruwsians had received $187,000,000 between July ber, 1917, “and | wiih exception of t Was any mone Kukhmetief Embussy i" uske | Read The Treasury ruled that fan. bnasy wos entitled to be muintaine out of the balance, d others uned the elevated. Service was resumed at 8.65. National City Bank," Mr. Kelloy re- bh, replied. Recently published remarks of J. Austen Chamberlain, British Chance! lor of Exchequer, that such a pro posal had been made to the United States and refused, prompted he} question that drew Mr. Houston's statement. Assistant Seoretary Kelley of the Treasury, in charge of foreign loans stated that Russian Embassy officials which was in the| COLLINS, SHOT DEAD | Leader First Reported as Wounded, Now Announced as Having Been Killed, DUBLIN, Feb. 7 (Associated Press) Michue! Collins, Adjutant Genera! of the Irish Ropublican Army, Was killed in the ambush at Burgatta last week, in whieh it was previously reported he had been wounded, according to (he polices authorities here | 1s. the police declare, was shot t whi otruetions to ala nen ii cor muah attack WAR CASUALTIES INCREASING 5,000 A MONTH IN U.S. American Legion to Ask $85,- 000,000 for Adequate Hos- pital Facilities. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 MERICAN casualties of the World War are increasing .000 per month, it, was an- nounced to-day to the National Executive Committee of the Amer- ican Legion meeting here. Mental breakdowns and tuber- culosis resulting from gas and ex- posure are putting 5,000 *ex-sol- diers in hospitals monthly to 3,900 discharged. To meet this condition the committee will demand a Con- gressional appropriation of $8 000,000 1o provide adequace hospi- tal facilities, ‘The House to-day unanimously passed a bill authorizing the con- struction of five hospitals for disabled war veterans at an esti- mated cost of $12,500,000, The bill also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to lease, subject to appropriation by Congress, the proposed $3,000,000 hospital to be built by the State of New York. UNTERNYERTOQUI F INQUIRY POWERS ARE TOBELINIED In Albany to Fight for Right to Investigate Banks and Insurance Co.'s. (Special Dewwatch to The Evening Work.) ALBANY, Feb. 7.—Samuel Unter- myer, counsel to the Lockwood com mittee, came to Albany to-day to forve the fight to have the powers of the committee broadened to en- able it to go into an investigation of banks and life insurance compa- nies as to what extent their refusal to advance loans to home owners and builders has affected the situation in New York City Mr. Untermyer, it is said, here with the witimatum that if the resolution is not adopted to-morrow, when jt comes up for passage, in ite original form, which gives the Lock- housing came wood Committee practically unlimited powers, including power to grant im- munity to witnesses, he will resign as counsel to the committee. He wan full of fight when he got off the train and started for the capital. Senator Lockwood, Senator Lusk, Chairman of the Committee which has the amended resolution in hand, and other legislative leaders met Mr Untermyer in Senator Lusk’s office at noon, The arrival of Mr. Unter- myer appeared to surprise some of the leaders. Despite assertions by some mem- bera of the Lockwood Committee that the powers granted by the amended resolution, which actually does not give the committee much more lati- tude than it was granted when it was selected by the last Legislature, are sufficient to enable Mr. Untermyer to inquire as far as he likes into the af- faire of banks and insurance com- panies, the militant counsel to the wornmittee refuses to adopt that point of view. The developments of to-day's meeting promise sational to be sen NO PEACE OFFER SENT. Washington Denies the Olrcalated Im Berlin, WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Loring Dre el, Amertenn High Commissioner to rmany, if without authority to dis euss the tion of peace w many, State Depnartm om to-day’ in commenting on despa that the German Government had made auch a proposal to him. No communication regarding any such Report Vis proposal ‘has been received from Mr. IRONAND COAL MEN INPLOT TO KEEP UP PIES, CHARGE dlemen Also Factor, Says Comptroller Williams. BANKS MADE 17 TO 55 PC. Of $13,764,000,000 [oaned| by Banks, Farmers Got | Fourteen Per Cent. WASHINGTON, Feb. | by iron, steel and coul men to main- 7.—Attempts tain excessive prices and Yunwar- ranted” profits by middlemen were charged by Jolin Skelton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency, in his annual report to-day These practices, Mr. Williams } added, constitute a tax on thie con-/| sumer and are delaying a return to, normal prices and conditions | “By closing down mills and mines,” | Mr. Williams sald, “the output of steel and iron was reduced approxi mately one-fourth in the year, foHow: ing the armistice in order that manu- facturers and miners might obtain, because of insistent and pre-emptor: demands, the exorbitant profits real- | jzed during the war rather than the moderate profits they would have had lo accept if a maximum output had been maintained. While the profits of stee! manufacturers and coal oper- ators were swollen, the country be- jcame poorer from the lack of produc. lon brought about by the unneces sary closing down of mills and mines and the unnecessary idleness of labor.” The country is now spects gn a sounder basis, ¢ feally, than it has been for years, he declared. Deflation, obviously in- evitable a year ago, has come, he added, and prices of many basic com. modities and raw materials have re- turned to pre-war levels or below “It now remains for the middleman,” the Comptroller added, “to adjust his profits to the new prices before the ultimate consumer will receive the benefit of the reduced cost of living.” Labor, however, Mr, Williams ‘said, must son determine whether a #hut- down and idleness are preferred to @ lower wage scale which takes into consideration the lower living charges. Mills and factories cannot operate unless they can turn out commodi- ties at prices the public can afford to pay, he asserted, and it is better for the manufacturers to operate and Produce goods at cost or at a very narrow margin of profit than to close down entirely. Participation by la- bor with capital in the profiles he} suggested as the only way to restore | business. “When conditions abroad become more gettled or stabilized,” Comptrol- ler Williams declared in a summary of the present outlook, “and home much needed adjustments are | effected in the costs to the consumer | of steel and iron products, which are | still quoted mbout twice their pre-war prices, and when coal, for which the when at (Continued on Second Page.) HOUSING SURVEY | IN CITY BEGINS) Sanitary Bureau Inspectors to As- certain if Crowding in Sleeping | Quarters Is Health Menace. Royal 8. | missioner, to-day announced that Inspectors of the Dr Copeland, Health arty | itary Bureau br! tigation of differont sections of the city for the rtalning whether « ho existed, and if so, whether ou many iB pervons i | few rooms proved a menucs to hex!th | Dr. Copeland sald that many persona obviously those who owned property, erent en orld, “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | 1921. -NAVY AIRCRAFT TO BOMB A WARSHIP To-Morrow’s Weather—RAIN, COLDER. AMERICA Admiral Coontz + TO STAGE BATTLE BETWEEN BOMBING AIRCRAFT Announces to the House Naval Committee That a Former German Craft Will Prob- ably Be Used In the Test. WASHINGTON, Feb. craft, is to 9e bombed by naval aviato! Operations, announced to-day before YOUR SHARE $56.81, IN 1914 WAS $34.53, YOU GAINED $22.28 Comptroller Gives Figures on Per Capita Circulation To- — Dayna tetmows. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. IMTY-SIX dollurs and eighty- F one cents is your share. Comptroller of the Cur- reney Williams in his annual report to-day showed that if the Government cared to split evenly the country’s money cach citizen would get that am t. The per capita wa in 1914. |HELD AS ABDUCTOR OF 15-YEAR-OLD BRIDE William = McCabe, 35, Married Brooklyn Schoolgirl in Ho- boken, Prisoner Says. William McCabe, thirty-five, of No. 152 South Liliott Place, Brooklyn, was arraigned to-day before Magistrate Reynolds tn Flatbush Court, charged with abduction, while his fifteen-year- old bride, Doris Pierce, is in charge of the Children’# Suciety. Doris disapyeared Tuesday from Pub- 11, le Schoo! No, Washington aad Greene Avenut 4 the police insti- tuted a search on complaint of her par- ents, Mr. and Mra, Stanley Pierce, of No, 501 Vanderbilt Avenue, Detectives Owens and Campbell found her with McCabe in his furnished room Saturday night. MoCabe and the girs, said they were married that afternoon In Hoboken by Rev, Conrad Elder, of No, 104 Bloom- field Street, Doris said she loved Me- Cabe and pleaded to be permitted to re- main with him. _— LOYALTY OF 8,000 TEACHERS DOUBTED Suggestion of Having Them Re- moved Is Made to the American Legion, WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—There are §,000 disloyal teacKers in educational in- stitutions in the United States who must be removed, Henry J. Ryan of Boston, Chairman of the Americanism Commit- tee of the American Legion, said to- duy at & meeting here of the legion's Executive Committee. He estimated that 2,000 of these were in colleges and universities, Efforts against “the street corner rad- feal* are viseless, Mr. Ryan said, whi school children and college and univer sity students are being taught by dis- ‘oyal instructors, — STEAMER BASAAN STRANDED. F Miquelon, Feb, 7.—The | United States Shipping Board steamer Rasaan atranded in the harbor auring @ nortiemst gile to-day and probubly will bo m total loss, Her crew are a ‘The Basaan was on her way from St. Johns, N. F., for Norfolk in tow. | of aircraft against major surface vessels, Admiral Coontz, Chief of } A large warship, possibly a former German rs within ninety days to test the value val the House Naval Committee, Admiral Coontz sald the vessel that would be used had been recently sub- Jected to somewhat similar tests with dummy bombs while at anchor in Chesapeake Bay. Several ships of the German navy, including destroyers and one large crulser, which were turned over to such a test. Admiral Coontz rejterated his belief that the battleship was still the para- mount unit of the fleet and doclared that the advocates of aircraft in naval warfare “have not proved their case." He ed the committee ize two airplane ¢ to au nor- ra with a speed of from 32 to 85 ki capable of | Mansporting at least pighty planes each and narrow enough to go through the Panama Canal, one to te | stationed in each ocean | Rear Admiral .W. Taylor, Chief | Naval Constructor, told the committee | the carriers would cost frym $21,000,- | 000 to $28,000,000 each. [t would be jdimoult to build them under thirty months, he said, Admiral Coontz advised against halting work on the major ships of the 1916 programme. ow have waited ail our lives for a@ navy of importance and equality,” he deciared, *“Now when reaugation séoms at hand this propaganda comes to prevent if, Don't stop any part of the 1916 building as far as the big ships are concerned, We can do jwithout the twelve destroyers, six wea going gubmarines and one tran port already authorized but not com~ tracted for, if necessary.” innincpant DARE BY DANIELS TO ARMY AIRMAN Says He Would Be Willing to Navi- gate Craft Bombed by Mitchell. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—A_ condi- tlonal challenge for an airplane-battier ship duel with Brig. Gen. Mitchell, Chief of Army Air Operations, piloting the bomber, and Secretary Daniels navigating the warship, was lasued by Mr, Daniels to-day, in commenting on the controversy raised by Gen, Mit- chell’s assertion that aircraft have made dreadnaughts worthless. “If ‘Admiral’ Mitchell can't drop bombs from the alr more effectively than he can explode tee meetings, “T would take « a battleship j his pet plan.” them in commit- Secretary Daniela said, nee on maneuvering nyself while he tried owt _— DEMANDS FACTS OF BIG B. R. T. LOAN Volk Resolution Asks for All Papers in Connection With $16,000,000 Advance. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—A resolution calling upon th: retary of the Treas- ury to submit to the House all the pa pers and correspondence regarding the Joan of $16,000,000 to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Conypany by the War Finance Corporation about two years ago was maintained that “there was no housing | She was leaking badiy when she put introduced by Representative Volk of shortage.” bb Jan, a oa New York, the United States, are avasabieutiagh Sites serene Rene sagt foe

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