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of the American Relief Assool: tion for a fow minutes this morn= jing. He sent word by his seore- tary that no announcement of a decision need be expected from him to-day. So far as could be learned he had made no engage- ments for a further telephone gonference with Mr. Harding. ‘Mr, Hoover left the buliding with- out being intercepted by reporters. It was caid ho had “gone uptown for fapoh.” Mr. Baker disappeared from the offices at about the same time and ® was understood that Mr. Hoover ‘Was to discuss his decision with close friends at lunch and during the after- noon. After his talk with Mr. Harding, Hloover said: “Senator Harding and I have had a Gonversation over the telephone as to My accepting a post in she Cabinet Naturally, these are matters requimng @onsideration and equally they are not matters for me to discuss now. ‘The conversation with Harding took Place over a telephone from the house of a friend of Hoover's In this city, W lasted for about fifteen minutes and only the two men chiefly con cerned know anything of the details, Immediately after the conversation Mr. Hoover burried away to a gala performance of “Carmen” for the Benefit of the European Relief Coun- eM, of which he is Chairman. He Wes accompanied by J. P. Morgan and George Barr Baker, ‘Two things are said to stand in the ‘Way of an immediate acceptance of the proffered post by the Californian. One is the bitter opposition of a gfoup of Senators to his appointment, juding Knox and Penrose, and the er is the dislike felt by Hoover for red tape methods which have been ig vogue in the department over h he is asked to preside. ‘The statement ‘s made that in an- pation of the opposition of Knox ‘and Ponrose, Harry L. Daughorty, who has been chosen for Attorney @pneral, is hastening North to-day from St, Augustine, Fla. to confer Sf the Senators, and that an offer the Secretaryship of the Treasury lias not been definitely made to An- drew W. Mellon, the Pittsburgh banker. This position is said to have held open for trading purposes. Tt tp believd bere, however, that an mbderstanding will be reached and ‘Mat both Mellon and Hoover will be tm the Cabinet. ®T. AUGUSTINE, Fila. Feb. 33 (Associated Pross).—With only a few formalities remaining to finally close up the selection of his Cabinct, Presi- Gent-eloct Harding gave hjs attention to-day to other immediate appotnt- Ments and to the preparation of his augural address. Forma! invitatjons and acceptance Dave not yet been exchanged in re- gard to three of the ten places, These are Edwin Denby of Michigan; Hor- bert Hoover of California and James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, slated re- @pectively for the portfolios of Navy, Commerce and Labor. There have been published reports thet Mr. Hoover might decline, but they manifestly are not credited by Mr. Harding and his advisers. Another selection understood to have been decided on ts that of George B. Christian jr. to be Svc- to the President. Mr. Chris- tian has béen Mr. Harding's private gecretary since he entered the Senate six yoars ago. Mr. Christian is forty-seven years @id ana bas been a neighbor of the ‘Mardings in Marion for years. He is raduate of Pennsylvania Military liege with the degree of civil en- ineer, and before he became sec: [aay to air. Harding was gene Manager of a Marion lime and stone oompany. He has a wide official ac- quaintance gained during his six ag in the national capital and in course of his confidential rela- tions with Mr, Harding during the 1920 campaign. $3,006 694 ADDED TO ARY BL BY SENATE COMMUTE: As Reported Out Carries $362,- 214,806—Nearly $5,000,000 More for National Guard WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The Army Appropriation Bill, oarrying $31,006,694 more than allowed by the House. was reported to the Senrte to-day by the Military Affuirs Com- Mittee. ‘The only considerable de- Crease in any House item was $1,250,- 00 for the Ordnance Bureau. As passed by the House, the Army Bill carried a total appropriation of $31,208,412. The Senate Committee Faised the figure to $362,214,806 The item for pay of the army was Amoreased $17,036,841 over the House @mount of $14,745,906. The Senate figure provides for 14,140 officers and 275,000 men, the personnel established 4n the bill passed over the President's Veto. Several items of pay were over- looked by the House, members of the fBenate Committee said to-day. Appropriation for the Air Service was reised from 19,200,000 to 000,000, This sum, according to tor Wadsworth, Chairman of the Military Committee, will permit the army to construct new types of planes which are now deing projected An incresse of $4,765,000 wa ade Yn the appropriation for the National Guard. This body, according to the Bepate Committee, would have virtu- weily paseed from existence under the ‘House appropriation. GERMAN BONDS FROM BELGIUM Might Establish Precedent That Would Saddle Allied Debt on United States. NO ACTION JUST NOW. Congress Will Wait to See What German Bonds Are Really Worth. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Copy+ right, 1921).—Congreas will not act at this time on President Wilson's mes- soge submitting the proposal that the United States consider the acceptance rman reparations bonds in ex- > for Belgium's debt to America of $171,780,000. Nor docs the tive expect any action until America is convinced that the German repara- tion bonds are worth something. This brings up the entire question of whether the recent decision of the Allied Premiors to saddle Germany with an enormous debt ts wise and whether America will accopt German reparation bonds as payment for anything in the future. The United States refrained from Participating in the Allied council at which the reparation settlement was agreed upon and has oven hesi- tated to express approval or disap- proval afterwards lest the present Administration be drawn into a dis- cussion of reparation ‘questions which might be embarrassing to the Harding Administration. MIGHT ESTABLISH A DANGER- OUS PRECEDENT, ‘The presentation to Congress of the proposal that German reparation bonds be used in exchange for Bel- gium's war indebtedness to the United States involves a precedent of considerable importance, If America accepts German bonds payment for even so small a debt, relatively speaking, $171,780,000, would it be con- ent for the United States to refuse to accept German repara- tion bonds as payment for the en- tire Allied war debt? That is the question which members of Gon- gress are asking. The British and French point out that they would be even more gen- erous than the United States, for England and France stand ready to accept German reparation bonds amounting to £174,000,000, or about $800,000,000, which is the combined debt of Belgium to France and Britain. If the British and French think the German reparation bonds will be worth $800,000,000 why can't the United States, it is argued, ac- cept their judgment? But the answer given here is that England and France would fare much better in the end, even if German rep- aration bonds were accepted to the amount of $800,000,000, because she transfer from the Allies of the entire ecu: | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921. SENATOR HYRQM JOMNSON TDANGER IN Johnson, Hylan and O’Brien Take Up TAK Traction Problem in Mayor’s Office MasrOR Fir L COR. COON SE! as LSLIEUOGE C0 FAS: LALIT PUT AT $2210.00 Assets $420,000; Collapse Ascribed to High Cost of Paper. | ASSEMBLY BLOCKS "HI! ONTHEJOB MOVE TO SIDETRACK STARISWIHUSUAL TRANSIT MEASURE | Motion to Transfer Miller's Bill| it ts unconstitutional ana wilt to Railroad Committee Defeated 92-40. Tho Leslie-Judge Company of No.| crim @ Staly Commpoodent af The teenie 225 Fitth Avenue, one of the best omy iased. buptnsi ‘ : AUBANY, Feb. 23—The Assembi See eter be: eucaes Uae sities day defeated an attempt to get country, which issued Leslie's Week- | the Miller-transit measure out of the ly, Judge, Film Fun and various| Judiciary Committee and have it books which it sold on the instalment | transferred to the Committes on plan, went into the hands of a re-| Railroads, where olght of the th celver to-day. It is alleged to have! teen menwere hull from ¢ been admitted by an official of the |New York Fourteen iblican company that the organization ix| voted with the Democrats und 8o- “irretrievably insolvent.” Its Habilitles, | ojalists, a6 sot forth, total $2,210,000, with as-| Assemblyman Peter Hull! made sets of $420,000. a motion to discharge the Judicia The difficulties of the company are ¢ Jomm ittoe m further considera- alleged to bo caused by the poor tion of the measure, which was de- health of John A. Sleioher, the Presi-| feated by a vote of 92 to 40. Con dent, and the high cost of paper. In giderable oratory wos indulged in, 1919 the losses of the orgunization are not so. much on the merits or de- stated to have been $150,000 and in 1920, $300,000. The recelver, appointed to-day by Judge Martin T. Manion of the Fed- | ,, eral District Court, is Thomas B. Felder, an attorney of No. 14 Wall! Street. The appointment was made | on a petition in involuntary bank- | ruptey filed by Saul 8. Myers in be- half of William Green, printer and| bookbinder, No. 627 Westt 434 Street, | who claims a debt of $600,000; F ward McDonnell, whose claim is $26, f i 33 t indebtedness to the United States to the backs of the Germans would re eve Groat Britain and France of the greater part of their financial burdens to-day. Even such @ course is not consid- ered outside the range of possibility if the German reparation bonds can be made to pay. But America has stayed out of the League of Nations and has thus far given no indication that #he wants to participate in the enforcement of the terms of the Peace Treaty of Versailles or in the colleo- tion of the war Indemnity from Ger- many. Europe, of course, would like America to accept German reparation bonds because it would make the United States see more clearly the ne- cessity of making Germany pay and would bring America closer to Buro- pean political affairs. REPORTED VIEW OF THE GOV- ERNMENT'S ADVISERS, American financiers and the men who have been advising the United States Goveroment ever since the Paris conference, insist that it is the Allies and not Germany who must be regulated, for in the mad scramble to get money out of Germany the Allies thus far have adopted a policy of strangulation which, from the Amer- jean viewpoint, 1s bad business for the world, irrespective of whether it affects the value of German repara- tion bonds, America’s position as expressed bere is that Germany must be given a chance to get back on her feet and that if the Allice persist in the policy of draining Germany of her capital and levying an export tax, for in- stance, that will interfere seriously with German trade opportunities, the Allies may 48 well abandon any hope that America wil) believe the German reparation bonds are worth the paper on which they aro written. There \s substantially no difference of opinion on the question between Republicans and Democrats here, It te an economic and not @ partisan question. President Wilson prom- ised to submit the matter to Con- gress when he was ip Paris. He could not refuse to do so without be- ing discourteous to Relgtum. But Mr. Wilson's own message to Con- gress contains significant phrases which indicate that he does not be- lieve the present, at any rate, a fa~ vorable moment for the acceptance 000, and Douglas H. Cooke, $500. In the petition it is set forth that Green holds a promissory note of the company’s for $100,000, made pay- | able to the City Real Estate Com- pany, and on which he advanced this amount to the realty organization. In July last he asked the Leslie-~ Judge Company to meet the note, but it defaulted, In 1909 the compuny Issued $700,000 | merits of the bill as on the pro- Francisco and that he always cham- |priety of tho motion. The fourteen Republicans voting for the motion were Baum, Caxgoll, Caulfield, Crews, Ferrichs, Gempler, Giaccone, Halpern, Hawkins, Lieber- | man, Mullen, Nichols, feiss and Wal- lace. Had the measure ever been re- erred to the committee on railroads, ™ t would probably have remained here for the rest of the session. Goy. Miller this morning sald that he was in favor the amendment to O€ Newspaper in particlar for its at- the traction bill, which would nul-ttude toward his appointment. lity the right of the transit commis- | sion to increase fares, termination of the investigation of the New York trolley situation, The {St ought to meet with well merited amendment was added yesterday by Senator Knight and Assembly Leader Adler. pending the The Governor said: “The original bill provided that any first mortgage bonds, in payment for | M°re#se should be made upon such which It executed a mortgage to the |“ Title Guarantee and Trust Company as trustee. Green alleges he took $642,700 of those bonds and also| “ bonds, John A. Sleicher was conduct- Ing the affairs of the Laslie-Judge Company. The petition states that he the Charles Schweinler $130,000 © to Doubleday, Page & Co., $80,000 in miscellaneous accounts and $870,000 to book subsertbers. The assets claimed are: cash, $60,000; material on hand, $300,000, and office furniture, $60,000, WHAT IS DOING Tariff conferees continued con- sideration of HWmergency Tarif Bil, HOUSE, Representatives af cight wo- men's organizations appear be- fore Rules Committee to urge passage of Sheppard-Towner Ma- ternity Bill, Interstate Commerce Sub-Com- mittee continues hearings on |e jongreay of the proposition he is Amendments to War Riek Insur- ) ance Law, Vos simply make more certain what wi already certain in derstood required a wa 1 search of anybody's pr Jurist Twice Disabled erms, conditions and readjustments of contract or franchise rights as the commission should deem proper. On he face of it, a question of that kind bouxht 430 of @ total of 490 shares |COUld hardly have been considered of capital stock, In addition he ad-|¥!thow! taking wome time for it. It < was thought wien the pill was vanced the aforementioned $100,000/ drawn that would safeguard it, ‘but On @ promissory note. in order to quiet the fe of any- ‘At the time of the tesue of the| body, {t was deemed wise to make tt explictt, and the amendment will he bill, that ts a The Governor sald he did not know m obably will not of any further amendments contem- algeria aE ANS. BES eo A M1 not | ated but that a bill of the Import. be able to return’ to the business ar of his measure was bound to - Which he turned over to his sons,|ceive a lot of a With. F Reuben P., Acting President, and gard to any trout naAten BAe be having in whipping the § George, Secretary, bal Pat cool Volsteud act into shape, the chief The liabilities of the company in-|‘cecutive professed his ignorance clude $400,000 to the West Virginia! }io sald that his impression was that Pulp and Paper Company, $130,000 to | the search and seizure provision of he proposed statute was ba arch and seizure Excise law, which he un- nt to make M1808, MoGANNON QUITS BENCH, ‘Tried for Murder Complies With Demand of Bar, CLEVELAND, 0., Fob. 28.—Judge TO-DAY IN CONGRESS viijam H, MeGannon, in a statement iasued to-d. nnounced he will re- sign as Chief Justice of the Municipal SENATE. ton or “about March 15. The Both Military and Naval Com- Minn Dinvand Bar Acetee mittecs completed Army und day anking Navy Appropriation Bills. nnd degree murder hi connection with the death of Harold Kagy, SS Shipping Board Vessel Nearing Port. The Shipping Board steamship Cam- bridge, operated by the Kerr Steamship Company, reported tv have lout her Wireless and to be poceeding slowly on nooount of trouble with her pumps, loft Bermuda yesterday and ts expected to Put nto, New Orleans without encoun ering further di¢fioulty. The Came bridge lol, Punta Del Gorda Fos. & t immediate capture of four men by uniformed polcemen after alarms given by the victims of two rob- Policeman Patrick Collins and moe : : one George Van Etten brought in Frank Burns, 16, No, 127 West 10th Street and James Sullivan, 18, No. 473 Fighth Av Collins had seen (igures moving { in the clothing store of Baraham Altmua, No, 272 ighth Avenue, He'called Van Etten and went in w m after telophon | | to the West 47th & t Statior for help. | After do ron bar hurled | —— them from nd a bale of clott | (Continued From Firat Paged — | the policemen fired ss int the ba. The 16n t nd offered t surrender and then sprang out of the hold.” i dark into the light of the policemen ‘Havo you a definite plan of legal lamps and fought. They wer liebe nt 112 was the next |Cnly subdued on the arrival of re lewecice : serves from tation, The twe | ‘ eva cwniied thom Gi nator | Youths were arrayed like B way from Califorma, “but it would not be | Masters, and the police believe they good polley to reveal It at this time [Td outfitted t beta Mal te tonics We have got to go to the bat and do | T##tdless of the ext ote the very best we can in the present | PMictor of another clothing store. ‘a An hour or two before Polloemen situation, which is a very serious one, “It has more than a local aspect. | It not only concerns the people of the city and State of New York, but the country at large. If the traction pro- sTarmme can be put over here there ts No reason why it cannot be put over \elsewhere, In San Francisco tho fight for a 5-cent fure was 4 popular one Here it appears to be the reverse, to judge from the attitude of the shirt ront p The Senator sald municipal owner- ship had proved its worth in San pioned that cause, “Do you expect to confer with Gov. Miller?" was asked. WOULD BE DELIGHTED To MEET GOV. MILLER, “Thus far I have not been invited, though I would be delighted to meet Gov, Miller, as lam to mect all great Senator Johnson again referred to the far-reaching importance of the traction fight and severely criticised He referred to the Times and said; “Tho attempt of the New York Times to distort this into @ political |rebuke, This fight against the trac- ton interests does not concern Repub- licans or Democrats, but ail the peo- ple. Mayor Hylan and Mr. O'Brien are right in thelr attitude against the so-called Miller programme, and every person with an ounc: of courage or a bit of Americanism in his make up ought to be with the Mayor.’* The Senator closed his interview with this assurance; “1 am in this fight to etay, and I shall remain in It as long as Mayor Hylan and Corporation Counsel O'Brien will let me, It appeals to me because of its nation-wide impor- tance and significance.” Senator Johnsen announced that he will go to Albany on Tuesday and will be present the following day when the first hearing on the Miller traction bills will be held there, At the conclusion of his talk the Senator from California left the City Hall for Corporation Counsel O'Bri- en's office to start reading the tion contracts. BRONX DEMOCRATS | RETAIN THEIR SEATS! Three Assemblymen Whose Places Were Contested Upheld by Committee and Legislature. ALBANY, Fob. 23.—Aseemblyman Joeeph V. McKee, E J. Waish and Thomas J. McDonaid, Demo- crats, of the Bronx, were seated tn the Assombly to-day on the report of the #ib-committee of the Judiciary Committes which investigated and decided tho contests for thelr seats instituted ‘by their Republican oappo- nents in the last election. The sub-committes, Chairman Rowe said, would conclude its hear- ings in the case of Henry Jager, 5o- clalist, whose elegibility has been questioned this week and will prob- ably roport next Monday night. Jager, it is said, to a legal resident of New Jersey and was at the time webclse of he \- ™ ‘ Trapped sible number of pa ALERT POLICEMEN GET 4 SOON AFTER ROBBERY ALARMS Contention of The Evening World and Chicago's Chief Verified in Arrests. TWO PUT UP in Eighth Clothing Store—Confec- tionery Is Held Up. The contention of The Evening World, supported by an interview published week with Chief of Police Fitzmorris of Chicago that nee are best to be nq the largest pos- policemen on alert atrol was vy THE VICTOR COMPANY ad LANDAY BROS. Announce a ew Victrola *10 a year and a half ago when it voluntarily cut the prices of Red Ta is the Victor Company's greatest triumph since its action Seal records down to half—despite the fact that prices of all FIGHT. Avenue Burgess and Ryau of the Bast 120th] Street Station standing at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street heard a po- lee whistle blown at Park Avenue, Running toward the sound they in- ‘cepted Richard Shannon, describ- ing himself as a Post Office clerk of No, 1346 Fifth Avenue, Burgess ar- rested him. Ryan, running on, saw @ man run- ning west on 125th Street, and cap- tured him. ‘The prisoner said he wae James Walsh, an tronworker of No, 1461 Amsterdam Avenue, The policemen found that the whistle had been blown by Leslie V. Lloyd, cashier of a Loft candy store at 125th Street and Park Avenue. Shaw said that two men had entered the store,.in which there were about ten customers including three women, and with their hands in the side pockets of their coats as though on hidden revolvers, had forced all the persons present to raise their hands ‘The intruders then went through the cash register, taking the $15 it oon- tained and ran out. Lloyd ran to the door and blew his whistle. The pris- lod last night by the oners had only $5 between them and no revolvers. ‘They deniod rob- bing the store. The police believe one of them threw away the remaining $10 when he saw he was about to be caught. According to the police records, Shannon, who was for five months a Jerk in the General Post Office, and Walsh have both been arrested fre- quently for minof offenses and twc charges of grand larceny are now pending against Walsh. Assistant District Attorney Carlino said he would ask for the highest bail when hey were arraigned in court. GIRL KILLS FATHER BEATING MOTHER Fifteen-Year-Old Daughter Went to Rescue of Parent With Scout Knife. (Special to The Evening World DELPHIA, Feb. Bllzabeth » fificen, told police to- she killed her father, Edgar M. by stabbing him four times in Scout knife when at their home jn South Bonsall Street last night. She i held on acharge of murder. The mother, Mrs. Elizabeth A, Lance, is detained as 1 material witness. Patrolman Lawler, called by a man nm the street, found Lance in bed, dead: The mother asd the daughter were in h he beat her mother the room, He questioned them, and thy girl finally said: "I threatened father With the knife when he would uot stop yeating mother. He let feof her and ran at me and J stabbed him.” Lance was thirty-seven years old. Model 80, as illustrated other commodities were steadily climbing upward. This public spirited action, like the present announcement of the new $100 Victrola, is in line with the Victor Company’s ideal of keeping the prices of its products HANAN'S WIDOW. ASKS $100,000 NOW , SAYSSHEISIN NEE Tells Court She Has Not Re ceived Her Share of Shoe- man’s Estate. Mrs. Ethel Hanan Taylor, widow of the wealthy shoe manufacturer, Al- fred P. Hanan, who died Nov. 26, 1919, petitioned Surrogate James A. Foley to-day to direct Herbert H. Hanan, executor of her husband's eétate, to pay her $100,000 out of the estate im- mediately, urging great necessity. She recites in her petition she has been forced to sell the furniture, fur- nishinga and automobiles of the sum- mer home left to her by hor husband at Sea Gate, Coney Island, Mrs. Taylor relates she ts living with her present husband at Cannes, France, where he is engaged in ex- port trade and barely earning a liv- ing, Her present husband, she says, is @ young man, whom she married mmediately after his discharge trom the U.S. Arm), and, although he is not now in position to contribute toward her support, his financial prospects, ehe asserts, are excellent. Meanwhile, she demands from court immediate relief. The late shoe manufacturer's widow sets forth she is accustomed to being maintained at a rate of $100,000 a year, relating the late Mr. Hanan No. th had a $10,000 apartment at 270 Park Avenue. To decorate apartment, she says, he spent 000, He kopt three servants and three motor cars for her, she adds. Mrs. Taylor says her husband, after making minor bequests, left the rea- idue of bis large estate to be shared equally among herself and her two children, Altr P. fanan jr. and Mildred EB. Wagner, now known as Mildred E, Hanan. She says Herbert {. Hanan, her nephew, executor of uate, despite the ‘lapse of six- onths since the death of her husband, bas not advanced her one penny out of the estate he suys her nephew estimated the tate for purposes of income tax at $570,659, she char an , ¥ on. Ag , ahe er jusband had debts amounting ye she has made re- upon her nephew r the payment to her of her one- ind Interest in the estate, within the reach of everyone. Its enormous output—the largest in the world—enables it always } to set prices, quality considered, at the lowest possible level. 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