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THE eyENING WORLD| EDITION ERMANY OFFERS ONLY ASKS FOR LOAN FROM TO-NIGHT’S Weather—FAIR. |_WALL STREET Che ———— VOL. LXI. NO. 21,676—DAILY. c bt, O21, ‘opyrig! cht 102 D by The Press Publishing jew York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 192 Entered as Ll. Second-Clase Matter Post Office, New Yerk, N, ¥. 2s PRICE THREE CENTS BROOKLYN, 100, WILL BOOST ITS PRICE FOR ) ACTION OF pata Peers Advanced Price in Manhattan Means Tax of $21,000,000 a Year on Consumers. NEARLY MILLION USERS. To Impound Excess Over 80 Cents Until 90 Days After Supreme Court Acts. r4 Following the increase of the price of gas by the Consolidated Gas Com- pany in Manhattan from $1.20 to $1.50, subject to a future rebate of the dif- ference between the new rate and 50 cents if ordered by the higher courts, the Brooklyn Union Gas Company In Brooklyn gave notice that it would goon increase the existing rate in that borough. The exact amount of the Yhetease was not announced, but the _etatement of President James H. Jourdan was taken to mean it would ‘be about the same as that adopted by the Consolidated Company on the ruling of United States District Judge Learned Hand. ‘Mr. Jourdan said the Federal Spe- cial Master, Col. L. C. Graham, was expected to file a final report within/ & few days respecting the proper price for Brooklyn Union Gas, His jemtative report, Mr. Jourdan said, @howed the present cost of produc- tien and manufacture was over $1.19) per thousand cubic feet, without any return on the company’s investment. The Consolidated Gas Company to- day filed the new tariff calling for a $450 rate for gas, the decision of Judge Hand. The company also filed a copy of the court order, which restrains the com- mission from interfering with the new rate. ‘The gas company, according to its counsel, William L. Ransom, will ‘present a plan that will throw the new burden more heavily on the small a@pnsumer even than a straight $1.50 rate, and will relieve the load of large consumers, The new plan will cut the actual price of gas to $1.25 per 1,000 cubic feet, but will provide for @ 60-cent service or meter charge per meter. Just what would be the effect of the 60-cent monthly service charge on dif- ferent classes of consumers was nol explained by the gas company. Statis- ticians who have speciulized in gas in- vestigations said to-day that no de- pendable classifi¢ation of consumers rated by the amount of gas consumed per month is avilable. There are about 1,000,000 individual | eonsumers in the Consolidated system, of which from 20 to 30 per cent. may be rated in the class consuming less than 3,000 feet per month. Of this roughly bulf are in the 1,000-foot class. On this computation between 90,000 and 125,000 families using 1,000 feet a month would be compelled to pay $1.85 (Continued on Sixth Page.) a U. S. JURY INDICTS CEMENT “TRUST” Seventy-six Corporations and 42 In- dividuals Charged With Re- straint of Trade: AM indictment was found by the Federa! Grand Jury under Judge A N. Hand this afteruoon against the so called Portland Cement “Trust.” Seventy-six corporations and forty two individuals were named in the in ent, The charges in the indictment fol- low closely the evidence brought out before the Lockwood committee about two months age, Ji is eet forth thet the aesociation dominaied by whe made possible by | GAS BASED ON CONSOLIDATED: etic CHAMP CLARK’S CONDITION LOW; FAILS TO RALLY Hope for Recovery of Democratic Leader Virtually Is Aban- doned. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Hope for | the recovery of Representative Champ Clark virtually was abandoned day by his physicians. to- The Democratic House Leader and) former Speaker, who is ill with pleurisy and a complication of other| diseases, remained in a comatose state most of the morning and ap- parently was losing ground. ‘Czar’s Jewels’ Worth Billion Shrink to $1.32 Tip on Smuggled Crown Gems Reveals Choice Lot of Paste After Seizure. Jewels such as never adorned the Queen of Sheba, or a war profitecr’s | wife, or the end man of o minstrel show are in the custody of the United States Customs Service to-day, thanks to the energetic action of Thomas E. Rush. Surveyor of the Port of New York. Ever since the overthrow of Russian Czardom there have been stories of the smuggling of the Russian Crown Jewels into the United States to be {converted into cash for the Soviet leaders. The first of these stories led jt nothing, but recently Mr. Rush re- ceived an anonymous letter that seemed to be written by one who knew whereof he wrote. | ‘The tip was the Crown jewels, all jim one lot, were to be smuggled in aboard the Portuguese steamship Sao Vincente, which left Lisbon Jan. 21, stopped at the Amores, went ashore off New Bedford, Mass, and tied up yesterday at Pier 2, North River, ‘The delicate taak of searching with- out appearing to search—lest the smugglers be alarmed—was intrusted to Inspector’ Abe Lazarus, who ap- proached the ship unostentatiously and got wboard. His efforts were re- warded almost at once. In the stateroom of the ship's sur- geon, Dr. Fernandez Ferravig, he found box. Apparently no effort |had been made to conceal it—perhaps on Poe's theory in tho “Purloined Letter” that the best concealment may be no concealment at all. Lazarus opened the box and staggered back, gasping, pale, at what he saw. He quickly recovered himself and seized the surgeon, Who speaks no English and who seemed bewildered. Lazarus telephoned Deputy sur- veyor William Tierney, who sent an armed guard to take possession of the box and its contents, It was re- |moved to the Barge Office and to- day the official appraisers were called. They looked and were silent. “A million dollars?” one of the guards suggested. | “A billion?” said another. | The appraisers examined cach piece separately —s wd op Heck inc diamond) asa bdividu: emeralds, sapphirt hen the appraisers sn , temptuously and figured $1 * liberal estimate the vaiue of t whole lot. They were kind of imita the cheapest ons. Atlus and other large companies had an elaborate but rigid system of price fixing and that its members were re- stricted from selling cement to build- ers und dealers outside their geo- graphical districts, The indictments charge violation af the Sharman ‘law don én restraint of OTHMAN DONE FOR “OUT OF EIGHT IN DEADLY VENDETTA =a |First Victim Picked Off on Dec. 10 Last—Seven Swore to Avenge Him. SECOND ‘GOT’ ON DEC.29 Next on Jan, 23, and So On— Now the Three Await, | Still Vengeful. | Seven men stood about the body of Giovanni Lolachimo as it lay in his ter he was murdered home the day a in Blizabeth They were Salvator Maro, Angelo Patricola, Laguputa, Giuseppe Grana- tella and three others, all of them keepers of coffee rooms, restaurants or pool rooms in Little Italy, ‘They laid their hands on their murdered friend's body and sower to deal with his enemies as his enemies had dwelt with him. Six men Patricola Laguputa, Granatella and three others—just ten days later stood over the body of Sal- vator Maro and swore by the sume by an unseen assassin Street, the night of Dec. 10 last. Angelo ritual. He had been shot down ip Chrystie Street Dec. 29. Five men—Lagaputa, Granatella und the other three—~sriti®a their teeth us they thelr blood—we swear before you and by your body, Angelo!” ‘over the corpse of Angelo Patricola whout @ month later, He had bven murdered by guninen in Elizabeth Street the night of Jan. 23. Only the un-named three were at the bier of Giuseppe to-day as he lay dead in his home at No, 225 Chrystie Street, Angelo Lagaputa was shot but not killed in the Bronx two weeks ago and is in a dying con- dition in Fordham Hoypital, An Italian detective disguised us a will- ing messenger was sent to offer to take word from him to Granatella in the hope of learning the feud secret. “Tell him,” Lagaputa whispered, “that I say only this: ‘Joe, you next." Granatefa was golng from the pool room to his home five doors away at midnight last night when two charges of buckshot were fired at him from the opening of an alley across the street, running into Forsyth Street ‘The first missed; he turned, facing the report, and the second struck him full in the chest, killing him instantly. The policed Inter found a sawed off shotgun at the entrance of the alley; they could find no ono who had seen tho murderer running away. The effort of the police to-day so far unavailing was to learn the iden- tity of the doomed three who grimly cling to the hope of fulfilling part of their augmunted oath before their end comes. —-—_——e—_-—_ U. 5. TROOPS SAVE PORRAS WHEN MOB STORMS PALACE Are \Guard of President of Panama Fires on Crowd, Killing One, Wounding Four PANAMA, March 1 (By the Asso ciated Press).—One person in dead and four others are suffering from wounds received when the Pre tink guard fired upon a mob which broke into the Executive Mansion here yesterday. One of the injured diet organizer of the demonstration | AGAIN; SAID. ———— Not Described as Relapse, but Condition Gives Alarm to His Friends, |KEPT UNDER OPIATES. | Unable to Check Tendency to Suppuration in Pleural | Cavity. Another operation on Enrico Caruso was performed to-day for the re- moval of pus. Following the operation Dr. J. Francis Murray, house physician of the Hotel Vanderbilt, was in almost constant attendance upon the singer, and the other four attonding physi- cians were understood to be within quick call, Caruso ‘was not shaved to-day. | Thsi is the first time since his rally i The patient ts sald to be showing renewed signs of weakness in the last four or five days. Though no ono connected with the case would cefer | to the most recent development as a relapse, tt was again accepted, about the hotel, that Caruso is unce wore a dangerously sick man. The abscess that was punctured to- day, It was said, evidences new in- roads of his malady in an unexpected direction, showing that clearance of the pleural cavity of pus, accom- plished to u great extent through fre- quent drainage, irrigation and anti- septis, has not removed the tendency to suppuration, A censorship on all announcementa, pvblic and private, was being exer- clsed rigidly to-day by members of | the family. This, it was sald, iy due | in part to complications that) arose during a previous crisis when’ mem- bers of the family learned that con- jradictary messages were being sent out from the Caruso suite William J. Guard of the Metropolitan Opera House told reporters the opera- tion was decided upon ut a conference of the doctors at 10 v'clock. Mr, Ca- ruso was at once Infor. u it would be necessary, but ') uwwead no fer- vousness, "Go whead,” ie is quoted as saying, “I'm ready What Mr, Guard called “a slight anaesthotic” was the operation perforied at once, The doctors waited for some time, wateb- ing the patient carefully, before issu ing the following bulletin at noon “Mr. Caruso has had « second slight re-collection of pus in the flunk which has been successfully evacu ated, He is resting comfortably,” In explanation of the use of the word flank it was stated the term re- ferred to a section of the pleural cavity, low on one side. It was learned the operation was considered probable night before Jast. Sinc» that time Caruso has been kept partially under the influence of opiates. here when Gen. Pershing visited the Canal Zone last year. American troops arrived at the me of President Porras just in time save the Presldent’s life Senor 1s conferring with Wiltlam | United States Min nama, and Col Jay J. | Mort Acting Governor (of the Canal Zone, when a crowd which had z-twored in front of the palace be- |caine threatening. A request was at once sent to the commandant of the n{e nited States troops in the Canal Zone, asking him to send soldiers to |the paiace. Before they had arrived, CARUSO OPERATED UPON MORE DANGEROUSLY ILL ee | that the barber has not visited him. | jmittees of ‘both these parties, neg- | jlecting amounts spent by candidates administered and |of “BIG BILL” F FUREY GETS OUT ON BOND Vidward J. Murey. Known aa “Rig} In credited tant District Attorney Dooling with being the} master mind" in the bond robberies, was to-day ordered releaved from the Tombs in $1,000 bail. He had been held in $100,000 bail and has spent eight months in the prison, A. T0 BE ONCE OVER $10,000,000 SPENT IN ELECTION THAT HARDING WON, —— Senate Committee Reports $8,- 100,000 Paid by G.O.P. and $2,237,770 by Democrats. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Cam- paign costs of electing a President of the United States in 1920 were $10, 838,500, as cs‘imated by a spc-ial Ben- ate committee created to investigate them, which to-day filed its report ‘with Congress. Of this amount Repubjican candi- dates and campaign organizations pent $8,100,000, while Democratic ex~ penditures were $2,237,770. The com- mittee compilation tovk into account the expenditures made by or in be- half of all candidates for the Repub- lican and Democratic Presidentiat | nominuiion, and of national, State, Congressional, and Senatorial com- aod organizalons of minor political parties. Senators Kenyou, Edge and Spen- cer, Republicans, und Pomerene and! Reed, Democrat, signed the / ‘port, which was unanimous. While stating thelr conclusion that “the expendi- ture of these yast sums Is a present and growing menace to the Nation,” no recommendations for Congression- a uction were made except that the suggestion was made that elections committees of the next Congress should consider the quesyion. Constitutional ditfoulties: may in- tervene to prevent legislation on the subject, the report said, but Congress should “take proper steps to submit” @ constitutional amendment dealing with the difficulty “if it is found nec- cosary.” While the largest sums of campaign expenditure found were those of the| ‘ national orgunizations, which the committee said was §5,319,729 for the Republicun party and $1,318,274 for the Demoerats, candidates who sought Presidential nominations from the conventions acounted for a total $2,980,033. Gen. Leonard Woou's efforts to se- cure the Republican nonunation in- volved expenditure of $1,773,903, Lhe committee found, while for Frank O. Lowden the total was $414,000; for euator Johnson, $194,000; for Herbert Hoover, $173,000, and for President- elect Hurding, $115,000. Expenditures noted in behalf of other Republican candidates were $77,000 for Senator Poindexter, $68,000 for Vico President- elect Coolidge and $40,000 for Dr, Nichols Murray Butler of New York, Attorney General Palmer led Demo- cratic candidates In expenditures, tho amount being fixed at $59,000, while Gov. Coz, who secured the nomination, spent’ $22,000. James W. Gerard for- (Continued on Second Page.) surety company signed the bond. This action by Judge Mulqueen was at the request 1, William J. Fallon, that h ‘elther tied at ance or that ball pro! cou ent GERMAN OFFER JUST A JOKE TO ALLIED LEADERS Briand Draws Cartoon and Lloyd George Expects Demand That Allies Pay. (Amoctated Prem.) LONDON, March 1. HTLE Dr. Simons was making his statement on reparation to the Allied Councit to-day Premier Briand was sketching on a pad of paper before him. He drew «a carica- ture of himself, with long hair and baggy trousers, and wrote under it: “The little Breton listening with curiosity to what the Boche have to say." M. Briand passed the drawing to Mr. Lloyd George, who smiled and sald: “From the way things are go- ing, in another ten minutes we shall have to pa BRITISH PREMIER SCOFFS AT THE OFFER OF GERMANS; . YSIS NOT WORTH WHILE Berlin Delegates Attach Important Conditions to Their Offer of. $7,- 500,000,000 and Ask for the Float- ° ing of an International Loan to Enable Them to Pay Even That.» REPARATIONS SITUATION LEAVING MARION IS REAL REGRET, SAYS MR. HARDING Feels Perfectly Normal, and Has No Feelings Except About Home Town. MARION So, March 1 (Copyright- ¢4, 1921, by United Preas).--Warrea G. Harding told The United Press to- day, tn an exclusive interview, what a man thinks about as he approuchos the assumption of the greatest job in| the world sion of keen regret at parting from It was a simple expres “the folks” in Marion. Strolling along the street, as we talked, Mr. Hard\ng was halted every fow stops by acquaintances whom he hddressed familiarly as “Jou, or ‘Churlia” or “Jim.” “1 seem to be oblivious to It," he said, referring to the gr which he will shortly. “I feel perfectly normal, 1 drama in play tho leading role 1 A LLIED demands,-A total of $66,000,000,000, payable in fortytwo years; a 12 per cent. tax on German exports, German offer—A total of $7,600,000,000, payable at a rate of $240,000,000 annually for five years; a new system to be: devised ier erie ested penalty—French to selze gdditional German territorys Gent Britain to selze big Gernian ports. (at Leas LONDON, March 1 (Associated Press).-Germany, through ber delegates to the conference with the Allies here, to-day iad offers of Teparstions of approximately 30,000,000,000 gold mark of about $7, 500,000,000. (This is only about one-cighth of the $56,000,000,000 demanded by the Allied Counell,) The German proposals, it was learned, were made subject to wo conditions: First that the plobiscite in Upper Silesia should result in favor of Germany. Second, that Germany should have restored to her tree commere clal privileges throoghout the world. Regarding the export tax asked by the Allies, the Germans de- clare they cannot agree to that, but do agree to the principle that the Allies should share in the futare prosperity of Germany. TERNATIONAL LOAN BASIS OF OFFER. In order to make the German ooligations available, Dr. Simons Suge gested an international loan of which the interest and sidking fund would be paid by the Germans, the loan to total not more than '$0,000,000,000 ! gold marks, As the world market would not at present support ev larke 4 a figure, he said a beginning would be made by a loan of 8,000,000,000 gold marks. This loan, the loreign Minister declared, should have cer- tain privileges—exemption from taxation in all countries, This presented difflculties, but these, he sald, could be overcome In view of the advan- do not seem to huve any feelings all, except a regret at having wo leave You oa real Marion and the old town tolls, down It little nara your life The only can mark that rogret. ufter Its a to leave among time I ean you've spent these people. realize it is when I am dealing with appointments und the problems that L will woon have to face.” Mr, Harding found the weather in Marion almost as mild as in Florida, He wore bis light overcoat “This weather is fine,” bo remarkwd. But I'd rather have it three days from now than to-day.” By this ume Mr. Harding had reached the Marion County Bunk and after greeting some more old rest. dents he went in und deposited a huge roll of bills, making out his own deposit slip and waiting in turn at the toller's window. ‘Then after chatting » few moments with one of the bank officials he walked back to his headquarters building several blocks away As he Was going down Centre Street one of the employees of his newspaper hurried by and failed to recognize his boss. Mr him and shouted, “H usped Harding saw changed CHAPLIN HURTS A FOOT. agen, If Won't My Able to ‘ace a Camera for a Week, LAs E83, March’ 1.—One of Charlie Chaplin's funny gfpet is wrapped i bandages to-day He was painfully injured when he een also announced that however, a portion of the crowd had 4 combina- pad Domingo Turner, who was the, hroken in one of the dours and had coer as been fired upon, reduces Ree ia Sullivan, the Wall Street | tried this mnoth hel mm too. Sullivan is out en 450, stepped on a large nal! while walking about an indoor stage in his Hollywood wee plant Chaplin probably will be inactive more than a weal, motion pi for wees > Sretaseterintemtete at tages to be gained by settling the question of reparations and by the re duction of armaments which would result from the re-establishment of world peace The sithation of Germany will not allow her at present to pay more’ then 1,000,000,000 gold marks annually, Dr. Simons assorted, in addition to the carrying of the proposed loan. At the end of five years, he com tnued, ft will be necessary for the Allies to meet the Germans again in order to draw up a plan for mobilization of the remainder of the German debt. It was necessary to add, he sajd. that during the first five year Germany could pay mainly in (ind and in work. LLOYD GEORGE SAYS IT’S UNSATISFACTORY. At the conclusion of tho German Foreign Minister's statement, Mr. Lloyd George replied in the name of the Allles, who he sald were unant- tous on this point, that he did not think it necessary that the explanation of the German experts should be read, as Dr, Simons had proposed, ae their memoranda could be studied later. Ho added he could not conceal from the German Minister that the proposals indicated a complete misapprehension of the situation, and that “the Allies already are agreed that the proposals’ made cagy not be examined or discussed.” Despite Mr. Lloyd George's blunt refusal of the German terms Dr, Simous and his fellow delegates have not lost all hope. “Tt logks like a refusal,” was the official statement given out in their behalt, “but we still are hopeful that after the Allies have carefully perused our counter-proposals and documents they wil! find there really is some thing in them to justify our decision that we have offered the maximum possible, arrived at after long consideration. They were the decision of | the Cabinet, and while the delegates are prepared to discuss them they are pot empowered to change them.” Asked whether the delegation was preparing to return to Berlin, the official making the statement replied: “No, we will await the Allies’ fun ther consideration of Dr. Simons's statement. Mr. Lioyd George's rejee tion was a casual one. arrived at after cursory convultations with a few conferees.” Your German delegates, Dr. Walter Simons, Foreign Minister; Carl Bergmann, an expert on financial affairs; Herr von Simson, Secretary of the German Foreign Office, and Dr. Goeppert, head of the juridical section of the Foreign Office, entered the conference with the AlHes. The confer ence ‘was held at Lancaster House, The German delegates wore accompanied by a number of secretaries, — Gen. von Seeoht was ready to attend the conference should the diearma- ment question be taken up. The entive delogation was reticent and waa not hopeful as to the outcome of the meeting, “Jt ls what happens at Berlin, where the final decision, will he: taken” said one of the Germans, “which réally niatters,” Beeuier Liert George spened She, sonseatintt be ong tio» Bi mh pare Eh