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HARD 1} To'Night’s Weather—FAIR; COLDER. be * Ane AT CAPITAL; MAY VISI [ Cirentation Books Open to All. | T To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR; COLDER. FINAL EDITION — VOL. LXI. NO. 21,678—DAILY. Copyright, Co. 1921, by The Prew Publishing (The ‘New York World), NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921. Koatered as Post Office, Kecond-(Iaey Matter Now, York, N. ¥. PRICE THREE CENTS IS GREETED bY President-Elect’s Train Reaches Washington Half an Hour Ahead of Time. READY FOR INAUGURAL. Final Arrangements Made for a Modest Ceremony at Noon To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, Yarch §.—Presi- dent-Blect Harding reached Washing- tom at 1 o'clock this afternoon and went.into.ponterence with maugural officials’ on details of to-morrow's ’ ceremonies. Although the Presidential special reached the capital a half hour ahead of echedule, @ large crowd greeted the\President-Blect as he walked out through the President's entrance of \ the station. Smiling and bowing he climbed into an automobile and was @riven to a downtown hotel where he and Mrs, Harding will remain over aight ™ In his conferences with tmaugura- thon officials it le understood the question of a call of courtesy on Present Wilson was discussed. Be- fore the conference began Mr. Hard- ing imd@leated that he would be guided in this and other details by sugges~ tions from the committee. ‘Vice-President-elect and Mrs. Cal- vin Coolidge as well as the Commis- siemars af the District of Columbia sion at the hotel and the mecting ad- journed jp iime for the members to Three of the officers, Harry M. Daugherty, John W. Weeks) “and Will H. Hays, were at the notel. Mr. Harding arranged to confer at the hotel with Senator Lodge of vania, Chairman of the Congressional Inaugural Committee, and other mem- (Contin a Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Cleaeified Adv Days Received DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. Far publication the following day. | | for Woek Risetvas bee ag pl Atvertisies THE WORLD. Exclusive Sketches in Evening World To-Morrow HARDING REACHES CAPITAL: _GONFERS WITH PARTY CHEF : At the same time he named | George B. Christian his private Sec-| retary | _— Coney to Try Cromm-Country Flight March | BiG CROWDS; WILSON GOING OUT STLL HOPEFUL LEAGUE WLL WN Believes Harding Will Be Con- fronted ‘With Necessity of Promoting One. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 3 (Copy- right, 1921).—With fags and bunting hanging timp in the drisgle of a dreary day, the Administration of Woodrow Wilson comes to a sombre end. Death certs its melancholy shadow over the Capitol where Champ Clark, who might have been De- mocracy's leader in the trying years since 1912, Mes in state, mourned by all who knew him, irrespective of party. The tragedy of a broken fig- ure et the White House is in the minds of passersby as they look curi- ously at the Executive Mansion where, by the mandate of the people, a younger and more vigorous man takes up within a few hours the awful re- sponaibilities of Government at a crit- ical moment in American history, Jealousy and bitterness over the defeat last autumn have mellowed and the atmosphere of the closing hours of the Wilson Administration is one of depression not anmingled with the sincere hope that the great desire of Woodrow Wilson for a partnership of nations to preserve peace will be achieved and vindica- tion, much more satisfying than elec- toral votes or political offices, will come with the passing of time BELIEVE HARDING WILL HAVE TO TURN TO LEAGUE. Perhaps more significant than any other thing about the onding of this Administration is the absolute confi- dence of the outgoing officials that when President Harding and Secre- tary of State Hughes begin to ex- amine first’ hand the facts of our international relationship they will (Continued on Eighth Page.) poe Be Ace alae DAVIS COMPLETES HARDING CABINET President-Elect Formally Announces Choice of Secretary of ‘Labor. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Presi- dent-elect Harding to-day completed his Cabinet by naming James J. | Davis of Pittsburgh as Secretary of Labor. HUSBAND KILLED BY MAN WITH WHOM HIS WIFE ELOPED Fatally Shot on Jamaica Trol-| ley While on Way to Arrange Divorce. | CAME FROM BUFFALO. Rudolph Benzler Dies at Side of Woman Who Fled With Inwood, L. 1., Man. Rudolph Bensler of No. 95 Purdy Street, Buffalo, was mortally shot in a Jamaica trolley car thin morning by Wilfred Ressing of In- wood, L. L, following a quarrel and a fist fight between the two men, in the course of which Benzler had flung Ressing from the car. The shot was fired by Ressing after he fell, Immediately after the shooting Bensler staggered into the car from the beck platform and sat down be- side his wife. Within a minute he was dead. Reassing, too, olimbod aboard the car and took a seat on the other side of Mrs. Bensler and the WILSON AND COLBY, Counsellors at Law President Surprises All His Friends With the Announcement of Partnership With Out- going Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, March 3,— RHSIDENT WILSON formally anhounced to-day that he would “resume the practice of law” in partnership with Bainbridge Colby, the retiring Secretary of State. The firm will maintain offices in New York and Washington. The President's announcement, wholly unexpected, will recall to the public mind one of his least known of attainments—thai of being a jewyer. He was graduated in law from the University of Virginia in 1881, and practiced in Atlanta in 1882 and 1883. In the lat- ter year he went to Baltimore to take wp post graduate work at John Hopkins University and practiced some in the jooal courts in that city. In 1886 he began his career as a college professor, taking up the chair of history and political economy at Bryn Mawr. From that time onward Mp. Wilson did not figure in the practice of intr, ‘The presumption is that the new firm will engage princtpally in international law and collateral work with Mr, Colby in charge of the New York office. Whether Mx, Wilson intended to appear 'm court was not made clear, although itwas stated at the Wiiite House that he would apply for admission to practice before the Supreme Court of the United Sates. Probably no. announcement of any nature has surprised Wash- ington more during the recent months. Mr. Wilson kept his own counsel concerning his plans wp to the last moment, and the men who have been most clpsely associated with him personally und privately during the Jast eight years said they knew nothing of the President's plan until this morming. two sat there with the body until a policeman arrived and placed Ressing under arrest. In the Jamaica Police Station later, Magistrate Kochendorfer held both Ressing and Mrs. Benzler until Mon- day for examination, the former with- out bail, and the woman as a mate- rial witness, The shooting occurred at Jamaica Junction and New York Avenue, The three were on their way first to breakfast and thence to a lawyer's of- fice to arrange for a divorce of the, Benzlers. This divorce had been agreed upon at an interview this morning after Benzler had traced his wife to the house sho was ocoupying with Ressing, at No. 711 Burnside Avenue, Inwood. When Benzler found his wife and Ressing at the Inwood House he asked ber if she wanted to continue to live with Ressing. She replied she did, that she, loved him. “Do you want to marry him?” he asked further. Upon receiving an affirmative re- ply he added:."Then we'd better go see a lawyer and have the thing fixed up.” <A short time later the three left the house for Jamaica. Before leaving, however, according to the story told to the police by Mra. Bonzler, Ressing went to the lving room of thelr home and there got a revolver, whith he loaded, and placed & number of other cartridges in his pocket. At that time Benzler was in (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) > NO IMPEACHMENT OF LANDIS, BELIEF No Violation of Law'Called to Com- mittee’s Attention, Says Volstead. WASHTNGTON, March 3,—Dissenting from the action of the House Judiciary Committee in recommending Investiga- tion by the next Congress of impeach- mont charges against Federal Judse Landis, Chairmes Volstead expres d JACKSONVILLE, Lieut, Willia Squadron, L March 3,—| who re- will 12.01 . 9st Aero! © | declared. ' the belie that not one membe= of ch nmmittee would vote for impeachm of the Judge's ANCH ¢ the offioe of basgball arbiter while serv- Ing on the bench, nor would any con- rable number of House members to sustain the chargos. No violation of law on the part of Jndge Landis was called to the atten tion of th the Chairman ved that the Of any act that would turpitude. One o have to be estab) comunittee it ower | Dies Heli to Graking Only one stop, af’ Dalia, before impesahment proceedings be maintained” TOCLOSE BROOKLYN LANDIS HINTS HE RESTAURANTSASA| STANDS PAT ON “DRY LAWNUISHNGE, PLAN TORESIGN Proceedings Begun Against In Bar Association Speech He Owners and Manager of Ritz | Said He Would Resign if by Federal Authorities. Congress Was Hostile. Injunction proceedings were brought| OHTCAGO, March 3,—Judge Landis against the Rits Restaurant Com-/to-day said he would have nothing to pany and the Livingston Realty Com-/say concerning impéachment pro- pany, which owns the building Nos. /ceedings threatened against him in 8, 10 and 12 Nevins Street, to-day by|the National House of Representa- Federal authorities. tives until he had received official ‘The purpose of the proceedings is to| word of what the House committee restrain the manager, Henry Fink, | bad been told. and the owners, from continuing an| “I ‘have asked the committee to alleged nuisance. eend me a copy of the charges, ovi- The reliet asked for through United |dence, arguments and report if their States District Attorney Leroy W.|fulee permit me to have this infor Ross is that the place be closed for|mation.” he said. “Until I know what a year, in accordance with a provi.|the committee was told, I ahall have sion of the Volstead Act. On April 16,|20thing whatever to say.” 1920, Fink was convicted of selling} Tb® Jurist indicated that his atti- other cases tude on the ultimate outcome of the ee ee a pend-|ontroversy over bis acceptance of ‘According to the procedure of|tb® post af National (Baseball Com- equity, the restaurant and realty baseygaied had, ag hemes a sie ration on the sul : peacangal MARS “AmERNY Gare Louis before the Missouri Bar Asso- ciation last Decemiber. In that ad- dress he sald: “[ realise that men may disagree respocting a Federa} Judge being also & Baseball Commissioner. The Con- stitution provides a way to get rid of @ judPiad officer, that m, by impeach- ment. But this is a very cumbersome process, and it does not accord with my idea at aM for a Federal Judge to avail Wimself of this shield, “For my own part, and speaking to you gentlemen with all deliberation L say that if either House of Congress should pass # resolution howtile to present situation my modiately would go to Wasiiington.” on ee SALOONKEEPER KILLS SELF. Max Goerling Commits Suicide on Speedway Gench. Max Goorling, fifty of No. 704 West 180th Street, who formerly conducted a large cafe at 177th Gtreet and St. Nicholes Avenue, committed suickte this afternoon by shooting thimself through the tomple while sitting on a bench at 196th Streat and the Gpeedway. The siot was heard by Policeman Whalen of the West 177th Street sta- tion, who summoned an ambulance, but erling was dead before it arrived. A 6 found in hia pocket contained ne structions to an undertaker regarding my evignation im his burial, ‘The reason for the suicide ee 1 snot known, oe Sketches and full descriptions Army Approprii BIN] Sent to Harding's inauguration Preaident, in New York will be WASHINGTON, March 3.—The Army exclusively in The Eva- e ning World to-morrow. Insure a fiest view of Mrs. Harding's White House wardrobe by ordering to- day from your newadealer a copy of Friday's Evening World, Appropriation Fill was completed to: ent to the President. The pled the compromiae, agreed by + MRS. HARDING’S INAUGURATION GOWNS Exclusive Sketches in Evening. World To-Morrow SMASH AT TRANSIT PLAN LOOSENS GRIP ~DFALBANY 6. 0.P. Governor and Party Bosses Making Desperate Effort to Rally Shaken Forces. N REVOLT. FACE AN OP! “Stand by Party” Cry Does Not Appeal to Legislators Who Fear Defeat. By Joseph 8. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Kvening World.) ALBANY, March 4.{t is apparent ‘to-day that advocates of Gov, Mil: “9 traction billa have lost ground and are making desperate efforts to steady and strongthen their weak- ened lines. Heretofore those opposing the Mil- ler programme have pinned their hopes of defeating the measure solely upon the Senate. The Assembly, with its overwhelming up7State Re- publican majority, was regarded as “safe,” leaders claiming no less than ninety yotes sure for anything advo- cated by the Governor, To-duy the Assembly lines are shaken and the . O. P. leaders claim only seventy- six votes for the traction bill, just the number required to pass it. This claim Is in itself rogurded ms sure evidence of weakness, for if there were seventy-six “sure votes” it would be against all legislative precedents for the bosses to claim less than eighty-six. The action of official spakesmen of the up-State cities was a severe jolt to the Republican leaders, who had deciared a week ago that the tracks had been greased for the measure to go through both Houses. Also it is responsible in large part for the im- pending break in Assembly lines. TREMENDOUS PRESSURE USED FOR BILL. Gov, Miller is more determined than ever his ®ill shall become law, and although he-talks to the correspond- ents as to what the Legislature “might do or might not” do, he is using every influence and political device to whip the lawmakers into line for his measure. Gov. Miller may not care for the position taken by the New York State Mayors’ Conference on the measure, but their determined oppo- sition has made the legislators sit up and take notice. This is true, in particular, of the Assembiymen who have political hopes for the future. They have to make their fight for m return to the Legislature within a year and the people up- Gtate, who object to a Public Service Commission taking over their utill- ties and smashing their traction con- tracts, will not forget between now and November. Pressure is being brought to bear upon the members of the lower House from every point of political (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) —— |MILLIONAIRE KILLS HIMSELF WITH GAS| Heavy Losses in Market Given as Reason for Ending His Life by Emil Rothschild | OMAHA, March 9.--Fimil Rothnehitd, | miilionatre grain operator and President Jof the Rot child Grain Company. com. | mitted suteidc to-day. He was found Kitchen with the gas ta Heavy and in (or eign market speculation were ‘alble, sccording to notes he left, nn his home here early dean t ed an losses in caaly eral reepon NOTICE SERVED ON GERMANS THEY MUST YIELD BY MONDAY OR GIRES WILL BE SEIZED Head of Berlin Delegation Says Reply Will BeMade on Time—Announces There May Be No Need for Carry- ing Out Allied Threats to Take Coal Region. LONDON, March 3 (Associated Press),—Germany was to-day given until Monday noon to accept the fundarflental conditions laid down by the Supreme Allied Council at Paris. The German delegates were informed by the Allied representatives that if Germany does not accept those terms the Allies will take immiediate coercive steps, First—Occupation by Allied troops of the Cities of Duisburg, Das- veldorf and Ruhrort, at the mouth of the Rhine, twelve miles west of Essen, in the Ruhr region of Germany, which contain important mines and fron plants. Secondly—Enach Allied country will place such a tax on German merchandise ax it may deem proper... ‘'Thirdly—A customs boundary along the Rhine, under Allied con- trol, will be extablished. The German delegation was informed that the only modification of the Paris reparation decisions permitted to Germany would be as regarded condilions of payinent, such as a reduction of the period of annuities from forty-two years to thirty years. DAYLIGHT SAVING REPEAL IS PASSED Bill Sent to GovernorAc tion Does Nat Affect This City This Year. ! ALBANY, Murch 3.—The Senate to- day pusved the Duylight Saving Re- peal Bil, by a vote of 27 to now goes to Gov, Miller for his ap- proval. The Senate gave the bill one vole more than the Constitutional major- ity. Democrats voted solidly against After Mr. Lloyd George had finished Or. Walter Simons for the Germans, said the intentions of the German Government had been quite misunderstacd. The German delegation, hi id, would reply at noon on Monday. “In eur opinion,” added the German Forsign Minister, no oc- easion will arise for the sa tions tt forth by the Allied it] Powers. Or. Simons said the Germans would examine the British Prime Minist ape and the Allied documents most carefully, It was noticed during the British WILSON | At | pasamg the Naval Appropriation Bill at | the measure which contains a pro- vision giving to cities and incorpor~ ated villages the right to adopt day- Light saying ordinances if they so deatre, Under an ordinance adopted last year by the New York Board of Al- dermen, New York City will continuc this year under daylight saving from the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October, despite repeal at the State Daylight Bil. The Stock Exchange, banks, and other institu- tions here are expected to follow local time as before. An amendment to the local day- light ordinance is now pending before the Board of Aldermen, which would reduce the period of dayfight téme from seven to five months. Action on. the amendment Is expected next week. > HOPE FOR NAVY BILL NOW IS ABANDONED Senator Poindexter, in Charge of It, |. Sees No Ohance for It This Session. WASHING ‘, March 2 —Hope of| this session wax abandoned to-day by | tor Poindexter, Republican, Wash- Ington, who has been In charge of tt, and the Senate proveeded to other tus!- ‘The Washington Senator attacked the passed by the House, de- claring thar had it been’ enacted it vould huve led to the “demoralization and pareiyels of the American Navy." cau Prime Minister's presentation of the Allied decisions that’ he had left an opening for the Germans to maka new proposals, and Dr. Simons, tn making the reply he did, was prompt to take advantage of this, Mr, Lioyd George, in the course of his long speech, sald that if the Ger- to discharge Germany's obligatio; mans had come with a sincere sting the Allies would have given thelr Proposals fair and patient considera- tion. Germany's counter-proposals, which were submitted on Tuosday, were not susceptible of examination, Premier Lioyd George told Dr. Simons when the session opened. (A despatch from Paris says Germany's deliveries applicable to the reparations account, including war material are estimated at 8,000,000,000 gold marks. Thia would leave 12,000,000,000 marks due on the first 20,000,000,000 marks Germany would pay under the Versailles Treaty, The Ger claimed in their statement to the Allied Council that the full 20,000,000,000 marks (about $5,000,000,000) had been paid.) Mr, Lloyd George said the attitude taken by the German Empire regard- ing reparations was @ grave violation of the obligations of Germany toward the Allies. He reminded the German opresentativés that their Government had not fulfilled the ‘Treaty of Ver- sailles relative to coal deliveries, dis. armament, the payment of 30,000,000,- 000 marks in gold and the punishment agai s wgnienx se ee