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Says, Fail to Take State- P. S. Board So Old One ; Can Clean Slate. By Joseph 8. Jordan. Gorteapentont dent, of The Eve. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 2%—Gor. ie Bot at all dinmayed by the a favors the amendment &@ fare increase until justment of transit con- ‘ork City, he says be so drawn, If it perpetually prevented from exer- asked the direct question: there should be no read- Justment at all, would that mean that fares would remain unchanged forever?” He said; “That is an interesting point. I think the bill has been so drawn, at any rate it should be, that the fail- Ufe to establish a plan should not per- | Petually prevent the exercise of that power.” Regarding the conference of Cor- saga Counsels, held here Thurs- the Governor déciared that the of the municipalities were not at the subject “from the broad point of the public good, irre- ipective of of how the bill is to affect a locality.” precisely my vier,” he said. ir knew—at least I do not now iH i i 987 EE to affebt ie jurisdiction ite official, to lessen it, about the ‘alapoettion, of every- his own importance, we all have that feeling, prob- gaid that there was nothi the opposition of the Mayo: ote tt the traction bill, and thet their attitude toward similar he presented bis mi that any suggestions they might to ann would undoubtedly re- att “Ee Hi aalass to is illegal. exacspie, "thie t bill wides for rocedure, Pt a tone inistration of | Ji wait to and out what would , Miller said that it was prob- that an amendment might be to the Traction Bill extending time at which the State-wide ic Service Commission would be inted. This will be done so that int Public Bervice Commi: may have time to pass nen t ‘wy and other important “St it, But this. he sald, anil no not |! apply to the ‘Transit Comm! eS - GOLDEN GLADES ROOF OPEN. © Great Gathering With Many L | Gelenrition Prevent for Ovens ‘Several hundred men and women, s0- cially and politically profinent, with « Roof, 66th Street and Broadway, last evening. ‘The ‘music for the dancing was by the Challenge Pega conducted by Agraeneveh Vill Village’ Poll! 3" ant etoke. engagement at the ww he may be sen- in ida fi th addition to Plans to Delay Naming New will not inp, itance—where a proposal, | ' opening of the New Golden Glades of Municip Municipalities, He Legilitors Rusts A Rush Administra. tion Measures and Break Precedents, ‘Bvening World, ALBANY, N. Y,, eb, *—With a vory busy week abead of the legis- lators it has developed that more @peed has been shown by the present body of solons than in any Leginla- ture for many years past. The pres- ent week closes with most of the Ad- ministration measures introduced and with some of them well on their |way to the executive office. Several of the bills he has advocat- ed will be in his hands before the end of next week and more will be on their way to him. One of the most important of these, the consolidation of the tax collecting agencies of the State, is scheduled for pagsage on Monday night. Prohibition enforcement will be the subject of a conference of Republi- can Senators, and Senator Clayton R. Lusk, majority leader, saya that | there is no doubt of It being acted upon favorably. So sure of this was he that he declared that there would be no need of turning the conference into @ caucus. He thought that the billa would come up for debate in the Senate some time during the week. bills have already been reported out a committee in te lower house and will most likely be acted upon the Assembly before the close of peal of the Daylight Saving law wil come up in the Senate during bed ‘week and the leaders now declare the bill will be in the hands of the Governor by Saturday, Reorganization of the Industrial Commigsion, another of the Governor's pet ures, will come up for pas sage in the Assembly, the bill ie aiveady been passed in the Senate and transmitted to the Lower Houee this week. Senator Lusk said to-day that notwithstanding .reports to the con- trary, he was confident that there were enough votes in the Senate to pass both the Daylight Saving law repeal and to put the prohibition en- forcement bill through. It js unusual to have so many ad- ministration measures so near the i bills are acted upon in the Peer | ee off the session, That they will still further favored was made Traeat by the statement of the majority leader to-day that conferences of Republican ‘Senators will be held in future to discuss them after every Monday night's session. MR HUGHES GREETED WARMLY IN COURT Lawyers, Judges and Spectators Congratulate Him on Selection as Secretary of State, Making probably his last appear- ance in local courts before going to Washington to become Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes was given o cordial reception to-day in the United States District Court, He appeared as counsel for the Victor Talking Machine Company, which is being sued for $500,000 by R. H. Macy & Co. under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Lawyers, judges and crowded around Mr. t| ulating him. response. The Macy Company charges that the Victor Company refuses to sup- ply it with phonograph records for resale, thus violating 4 patent license agreement and the rman Law. Mr, Hughes contended that the Vic- has a right to sell or 1 to whors It pleases, as its patent monopoly, upheld by the United States Supreme Court, super- sedes the provisions of the Anti- Trust Law, MILITARY RECORDS DESTROYED BY FIRE spectators Hughes congrat- He smiled happily in sional Investigation; Said They Cannot Be Replaced. (Special to ‘The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 26.— Valu- able military records brought to this city @ week ago from New York, Bos- ton, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Roohes- ter and other points, to be used in a coming Congressional investigation, Were lost during the great fire that swept the United States Ordnance Department Bullding in this city last night, The records” contained a vast amount of data concerning the cost of material during the war, and it is said it will be impossible to re- place them. During ‘the fire thirty- nine firemen were overcome or in- 1,000,000 BOOZE, Part of It Deadly, All Must Be Destroyed. seized by customs inspectors as Vol- and valued at nearly $1,000,000 will ‘be dumped into the sea early next the offices of Byron R. Newton, Col- lector of the Port of New York. ‘This decision was made after a con- uideration of how to dispose of the whiskey before Collector Newton's re- tirement March 4, and followed the discovery that much of the seized al- cohol was poisonous. Mr, Newton had intended, it was stated, to give much of it to hospitals and sell the remainder to persons au- thorized to dispose of it for medicinal But the discovery that some of the whiskey was poisoned Jed to a ohange of his intention. An analysis of the stuff is not practi- cable, 0 all of it, the good and the bad, will be thrown Into the sea. Inspectors declare that bootleggers on the waterfront for whom this Nquor was intended bad made threats against them, accusing them of drnk~ ing the seizures, and they believe the polvoned whiskey was intended for! their consumption. In the goods that will be destroyed are many cases of champagne, brandy and cordials brought over by sailors and others in league with bootieggers here. DRUG SALES TRACED TO BRONX, THEY SAY Federal Agents Believe Trail Has Been Opened in Arrest of Druggist. John Baumeister, 1624 Street, the Bronx, was held by United States Commissioner Hitchcock to-day on a charge of violating the Har- tinon Act, regulating the sale of nar- cotics, Frank J, Fitzpatrick, Chief of the New York Division of the Fede: Narcotic Bureau, and mest of his agents were in court. Fitspatrick said that in the arrest of Baumeister, at his home last night be believes the trall has been opened through which narcotica find thelr way into the hands of the jobbers and peddlers of Manhattan. Baumeister is connected with what is called the Cortland Drug Company, of No. 1027 Intervale Avenue, the Bron: ‘This is ostensibly a wholesale drug con- cern, Agents say the furniture and stock of the concern consist of one deal, two chairs, a telephone connection and ten barrels of Epsom salts. ‘The Cortland Drug Company is regis- tered with Internal Revenue Collector roars of Albany, whose district includes Bronx, & wholesale drug house, As such it Is entitled to purch cotics by using order forms | by the Collector, Orders for more than 000 ounces of morphine, cocaine and horoin have been traced to the ihe it Is charged. ih Revolver. Charles Gross, nineven, pleaded guilty to-day before County Judge Martin of Brooklyn to attempted grand larceny, Grows was charged with holding up ani rotbing his aunt, Mra, Julia Booker, No. 531 Claason Avenue, of $20. Gross told Judge: Sy Se that he was forced to commit t beget oy fn older man who threat int of a revolver {i ig ‘ud "hot ‘commit the rob- Te Wen tie Fag Fide" Martin issued @ warrant for a arrest, —_—$—<>—_—_—. Bolsheviki Again Occapy Tiflis. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 26.—Tifils, capital of the Republic of Georgia, is again in the hands of the Bolsheviki, mcoomding to reports received here to- day. The Soviet forces which were re- Contained Data for a Congres-| ported to ‘DRAWS $3,500 A DAY FOR HIS SERVICES AS CONGRESSMAN Representative Farr of Scranton, Pa., Is Seated in Last Week of ‘Session. WASHINGTON, Feb, 26. OHN R. FARR, Republican, of Scranton, Pa,, took his seat in the House to-day as Rop- resentative of the 10th Pennasyl- vania District at the result of ac- tion by the House last night in jured, while thrilling rescues were frequent, ae battering rams were brought into play to smash through the heavy walls to get water at the blaze within and to bring injured and overcome firemen out. aremeeer=aith Lesten Urges Palmer to Sep Ger- man Mass Meeti: WASHINGTON, Feb, 28—Attorney General Palmer has been asked by the 4 fee yhueage am to prohibit the mass meeting Germans called for Monday in New vor City, No anawer has been but it is understood the Bane’ of Justice Goss non hr Inlined in the province of a New ‘Yor if police. to {o,inverrere in @ matter that with! ELE, dagative sud sera dr aretroyer. fs voting to unseat Patrick McLane, also of Scranton, who has held his seat, throughout the present Congress. Mr. Farr will draw $21,000 sal- ary and incidental expenses. He was sworn in just before mid- night. ‘The princely remuneration that goes with Representative Farre six days of service, approximat- ing & rate of $3,600 a day, results from a computation of salary and incidental allowances to cover the entire’ two-year period of the Congrens to which he was elected. McLane also has drawn pay for the entire two years, lacking six EVENING TO GO INTO SEA esd Seized by Customs Officers— whiskey, wines and other vintages |. stead contraband on incoming ships week, it was announced to-day at of No. 433 Wast 2381 $60,000 AWARDED BOY ACTOR, AGED 9, HURT IN ELEVATOR GEORGE. WOLCOTT. ; George Wolcott’s Verdict Called | Largest for Injuries Not Involy- ing Loss of Limb. George Wolcott, nine-year-old ac- tor, was awarded $60,000 damages yesterdy in Justice Cohalan's part of the Supreme Court for injuries sus- tained in an elevator accident. The award, against the Ver Boten Realty Company, la eaid to be the largest ever given @ boy for injuries not in- volving the loss of a limb, George, son of William Wolcott, lalso an actor, has taken parts in many performances, among them be- ing the lame boy in “The Piper.” “Now I am one,” he said, “but I want to go baok to act if I can.” ———> WOMAN IS KILLED, “EIGHT PERSONS HURT IN SPECTACULAR FIRES (Continued From First Page.) Myrtle Avenue, who was passing, ascemied the jadder after Ferber. Ferber found Christina gnd Mary trying to escape the fire by covering themselves up in bed. The rooms were in flames. Ferber passed the girls out to O'Connor, standing on the ladder, who carried them to | safety. Mary was badly burned on the hands, face and chest. Christina also was badly burned and suffered from inhaling fire and smoke, The girls are in the Holy Family Hospital. ‘The fire started in a first floor hall- way and cut off all escape by the stairs, The building was completely destroyed. The Nassau Street blaze went through the roof and reached a water tank from whioh the firemen were ob- taining part of their water supply. As @ result the water waa boiling when it left the fire hose nozzle and Fire- men Harry Engelholm and Thomas Lahey were badly burned. They were attended by Dr. Harry M. Archer, Honorary Deputy Chief, and sent to quarters. The blaze was one of the most epectacular in the downtown district in many months, and drew a large crowd, It seemed to have start- ed in a suite of rooms back of the rooms of Dr. F. J, Woodworth, @ dentist, on the second floor of No. 19 Nassau Street. The six-story. building was filled with small offices of manufacturing jewellers. as is that next door, at No. 81. ‘The $75,000 estimated loss is on the buildings, and does not include pos- sible loss in stock by ‘the jewellers whose shops are in the buildings. It 1s believed their valuables, however, were in their fireproof safes and will be found intact when they take in- ventories to-day. Mrs. Mary Vahey, sixty-five years old, who lived alone on the first floor of @ tenement house at No. 1133 Firat Avenue, was suffocated by smoke jast aight during a fire in her apartment, Damage estimated at $10,000 was caused by fire which early this morn- ing swept through @ two-story brick building at 145th Street and Southern Boulevard, the Bronx, The second floor of the building, where the fire is believed to have started, was oc- cupled by the Sheraton Furniture Manufacturing Company, and tbe ground floor by the Woodcraft Equip- ey age ihren rong gathered at the front of isenweber's, §8th Street and Eighth Avenue, last night to wateh Pat Kyne, the mani and several wall fight a blaze which partially destroy: the large electric sign in front of the totablishmont: Diners left their tablen but none were alarme ——— ARGUE GLUCOSE CASES. heard Arguments were to-day by Supreme Court Justice Wagner on a motion to dismiss, after inspection of the minutes of the Grand Jury, indict- found last June against Charles ¥. Murphy, Arthur J. Baldwin, Ernest i Wyniden “gen, A. na EC. erthy, As Azaitte \ ttorney, James aha ther act tg Refining ‘ou pat they con- Pires to coerce Louls r lartog to pay durpny $176,000 profits made £34 a@ oglu cose manufacturing concern and. to hide such profits ftom the Federal Go for the purpose of evading Federal. taxes, Martin “Conboy, counsel for the ace cused, argued that there was no. proo! ‘of conspiracy 3 noe that a State won facks juriadiction, " Deolsion ‘was re- served, a Passes Crials ti Feb, 2 Miness. (United Democratic Champ ©! WASHINGTON, Press).—Champ Clark, Leader of the House, has successfully passed the crisis in his iliness and h reuovery jig oe his physicians enid fo is far from out of fGnnger, er, it was i fth|priety in the practice, ORLD, SATURDAY, FRANCE PREPARES | SWIFT INVASION IF GERMANS FAIL Sealliipenibs. Marshal Foch Hurries to Lon- don to See Briand and British Staff. LONDON, Feb. 26.—All Indica- tions here to-day are that France is planning a swift armed invasion of Germany in case the Berlin envoys to the forthcoming conference carry out their threat of flatly rejecting the reparation demands of the Allies. In support of this it is announced that Marshal Foch will arrive here to-day to consult with Premier Briand of France and Sir Henry Wil- son, Chief of the British Staff, In conjanction with this, attention is called to an authorized interview with Briand, in which he said: “France mado all possible sacri- fices In the Paris agreement, but she will Hsten without prejudice if Ger- many has proposals to make con- cerning methods of payment And France will accept them if they are reasonable. “But if Germany comes moaning that whe has nothing in her purse then that purse will be opened, for- cibly, {f nécessary, to see whether it is empty, or otherwise it will be rec- || ognized as o fact in international life that a people may attack, pil- lage and burn and, if arrested, sim- ply say ‘We are very sorry that we are not in @ position to pay.” Evidences multiply that France is preparing to move speedily in case the conference of the Premiers which ls near at hand results in disappoint- ment to the Paris Government. Coun- cils similar to those of actual war have been held at Paris and instruc- tions issued to the military forces to be ready to move. Great efforts have been made to increase enlistments in the air service and officers of colonial regiments have been recalled from leave. Regular soldiers who have been employed in Suarding public buildings have been replaced by mem- bers of the LRapublienn Guard. MACNICHOL’S WIFE IS HIS GUARDIAN Mental Derangement of Writer Dis- closed in Action to Get Gom- pensation From Government. Mrs, Louise Mac Nichol, No. 15 Bast Park Street, Newark, was to-day ap- pointed guardian for her husband, Kenneth H. Mac Nichol, former short story writer, and member of the staff of the “Stars and Stripes.” Mac Nichol is now in a Government sanitarium at Bell Mead, N. J., suffering from mental derangement, The Government, she said, refused to pay her the compensa- tion of $80 a month, because she was not his guardian, Mrs, Mac Nichol asserted on the stand that her husband worried about an af- fair he had with a French girl, whom a child was born, When Mrs, Mac Nichol heard of the affair from her husband, she had him send for the gir) and the child, The Immigration autho- ritias refused to allow the girl to enter Mac Nichol Three the country, but Mrs, adopted the child, she months later the mother have the child back, saying 4} not live without it, whereupon Mrs. Mac Nichol returned tt to it to her. said. FREIGHTER :R ASHORE ON LONG ISLAND Texarkana, Shipping Board Vessel, Will Be Floated at High Tide, Says Message. The Shipping Board freighter Tax- arkana, ashore between Long Beach and Fire Island, will be floated off at high tide, probably about 10 o'clock to-night, according to a wireless mes- sage received this afternoon from the Coust Guard Cutter Gresham, which reported she wes standing by. The ‘Texarkana was reported to be rest- ing easily and in no danger. The freighter is of 3,710 net tons and carries a crew of forty men. She was westbound from Bremen, Germany, for Norfolk, Va. when wireless orders from the Shipping Board diverted her course for New York. ‘The Texarkana went ashore shortly after 5 o'clock. ees MORGUE DISSECTION INQUIRY ety im Practice. ‘The dissection of cadavers at the Morgue by private medical students, under the instruction of Dr. John Mc- Allister of No, 43 West 48th Street, is to be investigated by Commis- sioner of Public Welfare Coler to de- termine whether there be any impro- Although the law provides that unclaimed bodies which are not required by law to be interred must be delivered to recog- nized medical colleges for purposes of education, cadavers are alleged to have been turned over to Dr. Mc- Allister for dissection in the Morgue. Health Commissioner Copeland ad- mitted that Dr, McAllister had no right to do what he t# doing at the Morgue, but the Superintendent of the Morgue, Michael J. Rickard, said that permission to receive the bodies was given to Dr. McAllister iby Dr, Copeland in 1918 when the latter was Dean of the Homeopathic Medics College, Flower Hospital, and Assis ant Deputy und Commission REED PROTESTS AGAINST PLACING HOOVER IN CABINET Sends Long Telegram to President- Elect Harding and Will Speak in Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Senator Reed of Missouri formal protest to President-elect Harding against appointment of Her- bert C. Hoover to the Cabinet. Senator Reed sent a long telegram, the details of which he declined to make public, Asked whether he planned to fight Hoover's confirmation in the Senate, Reed waid he bad not made up his mind, He plans to discuss the ap- pointment fully when Mr, Hoover's naine is sent in regardless of whether he wages a fight with help of other Senators or not, Mr. Hoover, who is in Washington to-day, refused to comment on the action of Senator Reed. Mr. Hoover had a conference with Secretary of Commerce Alexander to find out just what he will have to jo to make effective his programme of reorganization of the department when he takes it over. “Tam here to study the department carefully and find out everything I can about it," he said. “I will go about the divisions as thoroughiy as possible and assimilate as many de- tails as I can to-day and to-morrow. I want to work out as much as I can before I come back for the in- auguration. I won't try to go Suuth and confer with President-elect Hard-, ing. I've got to put in every minute at New York getting my affairs in shape for this job.” TROLLEY BANDITS CONFESS RAID ON BALTUSROL CLUB (Continued From First Page.) machinery of the Union County Safety Committee was put in motion, All roads in the county were patrolled until Hopkins reported he had fol- lowed the trail on the bloodstained snow to the home of John Krebs, a peddler on Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, a mile and a balf from the scene of the hold-up, Assisted by the Kenilworth police Hopkins searched the house. In bed he found Carl Krebs, twenty-five, a brother of John, with a deep wound on his chee In the cellar the police found the legs of John Krebs and Martin Sharling of Roseville Park sticking from under a woodpile and dragwed them out. Carl Krebs was taken to the Hliza- beth General Hospital, a prisoner. Justice Grippo, in Kenilworth, held all three for examination. —_—— WILSON APPROVES RAILWAY MEASURE Authorizes Payment to Roads of Part of Money That Is Due to Them. WASHINGTON, Feb, 26,—Presidgnt Wilson to-day approved the Winslow Bill allowing immediate payment to railroads of part of the funds due them under the guarantee clause of the Esch- 4) Cummins Transportation Act. ‘The bill was passed by Congress be- cause of @ Treasury ruling that the “ONE CURT TOTR ‘ALL CITY OFFICIALS WHO ARE INDICTED oxtecnsgiptigaats There Is Quite a Crowd of Them—Judge Crain Sug- gests Special Term. to-day wired a|- Judge T. C. T, Crain proposed to the Judges of General Sessions to-day a modification of the court rules by which a special term shall be set aside for the trial of city officials under indictment. Judge Crain asserts that the city suffers by retaining these men on its rolls while their guilt or innocence is in dowbt, and their cases should be expedited, The only exception to this argument {a the case of Col. Augustus Drum Porter, former Third Assistant Police Commissioner, whose second trial for neglect of duty has been hanging fire for more than @ year, The others under indictment are Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield, for criminal libel; Assist- ant District Attorney James E. Smith for gonspiracy with Charles F. Murphy and others in connection with the Herzog glucose litigation; Assistant District Attorney E. P. Kilroe for conspiracy and compound- ing a felony in connection with a di- Yoree case; Policemen Gunson, Malo- ney and Franklin in connection with charges of protected vice; Chief In- spector Lahey, Capts, W. A. Bailey and Percy M. Dubois, Detective Mar- tin Owens and seven other members of the Automobile Squad for accept- ing illegal fees; Policemen Flood and O'Brien for murder ahd Fireman John J. Kelly for accepting {egal fees to procure violation of the civil service rules. MAYOR GAYNOR’S DAUGHTER IN FIRE Escapes From Worcester, Mass., House Unhanmed With Her Husband, John Rennard. WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. %.—A fire of unknown origin to-day at Main and May Streets, caused a loss of $100,000. It destroyed the three-story lodging house of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Hogan, damager a series of stores and threat- ened the lives of several lodgers in the Hogan house, Among the guests in the Hogan house were Mr. and Mrs. John Rennard of New York who are in this elty in the interest of a Texas Ol) Com- pany, Mrs. Rennard was Miss Ruth Gaynor, daughter of the late Mayor Goynor. She and ‘her husband escaped without dim culty. Mrs, Homer Courchaint, ov @ was caried to thé street tarted in the cellar of the Exide Battery Company and spread through cellars of adjoining properties. The ad se betel ba tle dor four hours, REGISTERED MAIL STOLEN IN | STATION) Postal Clerk Beaten Unconscious —Amount Lost May Be Large. PITTSBURGH, Feb, 26.—J. L. Mc- Cullough, aged twenty-eight, a Govern- fellow employees beaten unconscious at the Pennsylyania Railroad Station a few minutes before the train was scheduled to leave Union Station for Washington, Pa, Two pouches of mail are reported missing, Apparently he was hit from behind pith a coupling pin, which was found lying on the floor of' the cai Postal Inapector Cralghead said the bandits had gathered up the loose regis- tered mail, the value of whiah, he roads could not get the funds until a final accounting had been had with the Government. Railroad officials said this might take several years and that they needed money immediately. The amount which the railroads wilt collect has been estimated at abot $600,000) 009, ‘They will not get all this immediately, THROAT CUT! IN ROOM OF N. J. COURT CLERK Jersey City Pofice Find Man Dying With Jersey City Official Present. Julius Kesteno, manager of the Court House Hotel, No. 596 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, heard a scuffle and then a scream to-day in the room occupied by Charles Dolan, clerk of the Special Ses- sions Court of Hudson County, Kesteno got no response to Knocks on the locked door und sent for police reserves, who smashed in the door. A man who said he was Edward Ryan, twenty-six, No. 119 Hudson Street, Jersey City, was lying almost unconscious from. ‘stab wounds, ck, face and scalp had been slashed id two fingers Were almost severed ax fin frying to save himself, he had grosped his assailant’s knief, He was taken, near death, to the Clty Hospital, where the police obtained an anto- mortem statement. An and another stranger were in His the room. The stranger fled, but the police have his description, Dolan has Made no statement to clear up the mystery, Th nN AO arrests, FUSILIERS DEFEAT IRISH REPUBLICANS DUBLIN, Feb. 26.—An Irish Republi- can force was defeated by a patrol of Royal Fusileers in renewed fighting In the Macroom district to-day, it was officially announced at Dublin Castle. “Brench engagements have occurred near Macroom,”* trol of Royal Fualleers a the statement sald, “A pal battled with fifty armed men at rossing near Ballyvourne: The. armed+men broke an: across the country as fur as the Cork-Kerry boundary. The Sinn Feiners gained Gistance, over the boggy. ground” and added, will probably run high, and made their escape. ——-- GIRL CASHIER ON THE JOB. Watches Overcoat, and He Is nt. A pretty cashier and a Marathon run~ ner joined in a chase to-day which re- bulted in the capture of Fred Seelinski, living at the Mills Hotel, 36th Street and Seventh Avenue, charged with stealing an overcoat belonging to a diner in the Pursues Thiet Daley Restaurant, No. 20 Lexington Aven Mile Ethel Underwall, the cashter of the restaurant, who said she saw Seel- insk} take the. overcoat chased him, blowing a police whistle. She caught him two blocks (rom the restaurant, but he broke away and darted west on 36th Sireot. Umiberto Davallo, of No. 234 East $4th Street, the runner, then started after him ‘and caught him, in Yorkville Court, Magistrate Sweet- ser commended both Miss Underwall and Davallo and held Seelinak! in $1,500 basi. — Mandamun for Tele) Denied, Supreme Court Justice Ford to-day refused to issue a peremptory man- damus ordering the New York Tele- phone Company to supply service to the United Cafeterias, Inc, No, 55-68 Weat 42d Street. The Court held that “the issuance of such a writ, while benefiting the relator, would in corresponding degree inconvenience other members of the because of the impossi time of furnishing servic LosT, FOUND AND REWARDS. S1—Feo, 7. ca Aiea Comat Line Bxorem. tween Wilinington. and Palm. Down, aa eneraid and Tdlainond oy at dimer, flat aed of at asa AIeastphte, Lost. —Beaded bag, in Trown and Wale “taxt, ht; reward iF returned. Phone ureday nisl Wadrworth 9175, Aparuinent 2 AN “Lost and Found” articles @dvertioed in The World or reported to “Lost and Found Bureau,” Room 208, World Building, wil) be Usted for inirty days, These lists can be een at any of The World's Offices. “Lost and Found” advertisements ff The World's forsed the military to abandon pur- suit. “Two civil were killed and one od yt Cali 4000 Beekman. New York, oF. Brookiya Office, 4100 Main, al j not ment railway mail clerk, was found by | 04 GOUGE OF MALI IN SUGAR PLAY Gis CUBAN CS (Continued From First Page.) uN | given the power to name the price at which Cuban sugar may be sold in this country, but nota pound of sugar may leave Cuba without their sanction and nelther may a polnd of Cuban sugar be bought In the New York murket without their O. K, It was announced by President Menocal of Cuba that the comminstor* Would not be formed unless 7% per, cent. of the Cuban sugar planters agreed. Cable advices to New York state that the Government failed t, secure the assent of 75 per cent, the planters. Neither was the autiiori- zation of the Cuban Congress ob- tained. Yet independent planters of Cuba are bound by the decree and are unable to ship sugar from Cuba except with the sanction of the commission. The decree states that “the com-~- mission may appoint delegates at the different shipping ports and no steamer transporting sugar may be despatched unless its cargo is au- thorized by a certificate or other similar document issued by the com- mission, The Secretary of the Treasury and the Custom House Ad- ministrators shall be responsible for What ia herein set forth.” All Cuban sugar is consigned to the New York sub-committee. The New York committee allots the sugar to manufacturers and rofiners, and fixes the price at which it is obtain- able. Against a recent price of 3% cents a pound the New York com- mittee yesterday named a price of 4% cents for 100,000 tons just re- ceived for allotment. This advance over the recent low price of jiself represents an increased cost of $116,- 000,000 to consumers. The effect of the decree h, en to stifte all competition in the sugar market. New York Sugar Exchange has prac- tically ceased to function. An y open market has been compl destroyed. Not only is pendent refiner or broker ui to secure sugar from Cuba @: cept with the sanction of the but before a New York broker is able to secure sugar from the w York com- mission he must secure from the ission the indorsement of he proposes to 9 % It is agreed by competent experts of the sugar situation that with con- trol of sugar so completely lodged with big Cuban planters and New York banks, who are heavily in- volved through loans advanced on high priced sugar that prices are bound to soar. The rise from 3% to 4% cents is considered the first step in the marking-up process. It is con- sidered a live probability that the refined product, now quoted at 7.75 cents a pound ‘will go to around 12 cents a pound wholesale unless, meang are found to take away the! powers of the Cuban Committee |the New York Committee, mya cent advance in the price of sugar ;means an additional tax of $90,000,- 000 on the public. As matters now stand, the only | relief possible must come through in- tervention by the State Department of this Government. Independent sugar dealers and brokers who were involved in the huge losses caused by the break in the sugar, market and who, therefore, are not in sympathy with the arbitrary meth- of controlling the sugar market for the benefit of those sugar inter- ests and banks who were caught In the collapse of the sugar bubble, are making strong representations to Washington, - They are queacioning the right of this Government practi- cally becoming a party, even indi. rectly, to the fixing of prices. BIG HOUSEBOAT WRECKED, Brooke’ Reginald Chartered $40,000 Craft Blown on Rocks, PALM BEACH, Fla. Fob. 26.—The Scurry, valued at $40,000, one of the largest houseboats in Southern waters, wih) was owned by Edward Crozier of Philadetphia and chartered by Regi- nald Brooks of New York, was wrecked yesterday by a nor’eastor along the Keyw near Hog Harbor, south of Mariathon and Long Key. Mr. Brooks, his com- panion, William R. Ferguson of Rich- mond, and the crew were rescued with difficulty. RELIGIOUS NOTICES, Dr. Grant During Lent will speak on WEDNESDAYS AT 5 P. M. “WHAT SOME GREAT MODERN THINKERS SAY ABOUT GOD” SUNDAYS AT 11 A. M. WHAT IS RELIGION, ITS ORIGIN AND METHODS At Church of the | Ascension Ave. an ER THOUGHT, “THECOUHE: ¢HRTHROP ‘rit “explains the mi 5 TRACHINGS. AND ‘CHRISTEL ire at | HOTEL MCALPIN RUUF GREEN KOOM » February 20, at 11,15 at 10.30 A. M. in Sunday Lirik Sunday Schoo! charge of Miss Harriet M. Mills Everybody Invited to Both Meotings FUNERAL DIRECTORS, ee Call Colombes bere & sf atmonpuere of ratnemeat