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“Circulation Books Open to All’? “Cirentation Books Open to All.”’ To. MORROW. Weather—PROBABLY RAIN. | THE FINALY EDITION ie bide) Foy ‘The New York by The Press Publishing ork World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, Hikes at meyers Notified of the Result of Session Held Yesterday. DY TO ALLIES R 3 ACT. Lloyd George Disnises Use’ of Fleet if Blockade Be- comes Necessary. LONDON, March 5.—The German Cabinet has voted against acceptance of the Allied terms wf reparations, the German delegation l unanimously there was informed to-day, The Cab- Anot mét in Berlin yesterday. Premier Lioyd George conferred yesterday with Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander’ of the Fleet, on the situation which would arise should the Allies decide to apply penalties to Germany. Authoritative énformation was claimed by the Daily Sketet that Im case of a blockade both he North Sea and the Baltic would be the scenes of a naval demonstra~ Won and that Great Britain, in con- wert with France, had made all prep- farations to establish a naval cordon long the German coast. Some news- papers to-day made the point that if Germany expected “crumbs of com- fort” from President Harding's \n- g@ugura! address she was disillusioned. + BERLIN, March Financial. ex- fperts who drew up the counter-pro- ‘posals announced to-day, following a Conference, thut the $7,500,000,000 repa- | the maximum the country can pay. hey declared they would “stand pat” on that figure. Following the suspension of the witting of the Relohstag yesterday, during which Independent Socialists and Communists caused considerable disorder, Pam! Loe! Chamber, disappeared. When time for resuming the session had come none of the members knew What the mext move would be, and finally’ the Chamber adjourned without fixing a date for the next meeting. This date, 4t was arranged, will be posted on the Reichstag ' bo He oo board. \EX-SENATOR SHOT IN 25-YEAR FEUD fAssailant in Washington Wounds Henderson, of Nevada, Over Dis- pute in Old Land Case. WASHINGTON, March 5.—Retir- *ing Senator Charles B. Henderson of '*Nevada was shot through the wrist] ¢! to-day in his office in the Senate by Charles A. Grock, a former resident of Nevada Grock, who is sixty-five years old, and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, near this city, told the police twenty- five years ago the Senator former ‘was counsel for him in a land’ case ‘and the shooting was an outgrowth of that. The Senator apparently w: not daumerousl) wounded. Hend appointed on was Min 1918 to fit t Jackson Str miasing to-day by. her veati, since she left his doors from her own Wo hoon. She $5,400 worth of Jewelry] b. wna thinks |r Weatl thinks his mother was kid te aes in. connection Ie over the estate husband. The second ‘ inst. May, aites ihe couple ny) he feaeries Oey te Ste Mrs. Rs pte e Masts “Pesiasie “sie No. Sasiines wisest. J GERMAN A CBRE E ETS TERMS OF REPARATION: OTE REPORTED UNANIMOUS BOMBS HURLED -orries Taking Prisoners to escorting prisoners to Dublin Castle | were fired on and bombed last night along the North Quays. men returned the fire, killing three persons and wounding four others. lorries again were subjected to a fu- sillade, wounded, among them policemen. column of police and military in the mountainous district of Carrick-on- Shannon, County Leitrim, yesterday, and a lasted an hour, A Lieutenant commanding the troops wi diers and two policemen were weund- ed slightly, gations offered by Germany represents one hundred and twenty persons were interned February, As a result of this activity by the British cultivation ls held up owing to the lack of labor—most of the young men not jailed being on |the run, be, President of the|™Me8 re afraid to work in roadside | fields, Crown forces patrolling the roads. GREEK PRINCESS Doctors Unable to Agree on Diag- Anastasia, wife of Prince Chris- topher and formerly Mre. W. B. Leeds of New York, who has been seriously ill for several days, appeared to-day to be growing weaker, owing to her) inability to assimilate food. arrived up until 3.30 o'clock thie af- ternoon. Princess declared her condition was unchanged, as to a diagnosis nee her case, | Condition So > Fas Improves Consal- ruso's condition was tssued at noon to- was Ib & rooni wae AT DUBLIN POLICE, CIVILIANS SHOT Castle Attacked—Many Persons Wounded. DUBLIN, March 5.—Police lorries The police- On reaching Grattan Bridge the Several more persons were two of the Fifty men ambushed a flying fierce fight ensued which as seriously wounded and five sol- = Mem Are In- terned in Ireland. DUBLIN, March 5.—Two thowsand in, Ireland at the end of Government spring everywhere In some country districts fearing attacks from the ANASTASIA WEAKER nosis of Illness of Former Mrs. Leeds, ATHENS, March 4.—Princess Dr. Hoover, who is hurrying to this ity from Constantinople, had not Physicians attending the but they had not agreed CARUSO’S | FEVER GONE. tation To-~Morrow In Cancelled, The following bulletin on Enrico Ca- Gov. y day by the five physicians and surgeons Eaused hy Pal death of in attendance on him at the Hotel Van- isa graduate derbilt and’ the Un) of Michigan and| “Afr, Caruso 1s progressing steadily ree Joan manicin Wit! and satisfactorily, His fever has dis- tio ‘ qppeared.” THINKS MOTHER KIDNAPPED, | ..!* %% *8!4 the pationt was doing. so +! well there would be no more éonaultu~ | tions and no more bulletins until Ston- | Breeklyn Wo Rea: |day. The singer's brother, Giovanni, speatttaing since Wed ye tant ign VOL O18 ot sue Wo conversed 1921. Port Offte ‘COPS BEAT-YOUTHS “ALERT GIRL SAVES SOME FORTRESS INTO INSENSIBILITY $3,000 IN HOLD UP AT KRONSTADT IN RAID ON DANGE BY MASKED MEN SEIZED BY REBELS Sailors, disease in Broadway Place, in Cells All Night Without Attention. \POL IGE ARE _CENSURED. | Law Student ra Actresses Held After Arrests in Third Avenue Smoker. ‘The physical condition of two young men who were Side Police Court to-day charged with intoxication disorderly conduct impelled Assistant District Attorney Richard Gibbs to ask for thelr dis- charge and censure the policemen who appeared as complainants. The pris- oners were Herbert Graves and ‘Law- rence Rees, seamen. Their faces were cut and swollen and their clothing was covered with dried blood. , They were in Wilson's dancing place at No. 1551 Broadway last night when a squad of raiding plain clothes | policemen suddenly invaded the room ‘and began grabbing at women danc- | ing on the floor. Graves was dancing with a girl who was roughly snatched | away from him by a man he had | never seen before. The man was Policeman Ramerez, but Graves didn't know he was a po- | liceman and, sailor fashion, he hauled | off and smashed him on the jaw. The next he knew a half dozen men were hammering him with their fists. Rees went to his rescue and more plain clothes men joined in. They beat and kicked the sailors into in- sensibility, threw them into cells in the West 47th Strect Station and left them there all night without medical attention, according to the testimony. “Phere is “nothing in the evidence in this case to justify the attack on these men by the police,” sid Gibbs. “I recommend to Your Honor that they be discharged.” Magistrate Levine said he agreed with the Assistant District Attorney and Graves and Rees were set free, The raid on Wilson's place, which is at 46th Street, was the second in two weeks, No men were arrested except Graves and Rees, but forty-eight women who are said by detectives to have been dancing instructors, were placed under arrest. ‘hey were kept in custody from 1 o'clook this morning until 1 o'clock vhis’ afternoon, spending the early morning hours in» Jefferson Market Prison, which has recently been de- nounced by Magistrate Douras as un- fit for human occupancy. A policeman named Hepner appear. ed in Jefferson Market Police Court at noon before Magistrate Jean Norris of he Womens’ Court and filed a com- plaint of incorrigtbility against the arraigned in the West and (Continued on Second Page.) _ 33 MILLION HELLOS EVERY DAY IN U. S. Net Revenue of American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co. for 1920 $51,821,216, The annual report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, made public here to-day, showed a net |revenue of $51,821,216 for 1920, com- pared with $44,395,791 for 1919. Divi- |dends declared last year totalled $26, Guests Exetted by Fire, five in some rubbish in the Buckingham Hotel, of Avenue Steme w the ifth and mie t enetrated fire, whiob with trifling damage sceupiod by whe Roww A the was quickly 4 sh yoy. The xUngulshed 76,798, and for 1919 they were $35,366, - 334 ‘The company and its ‘predecessors | have paid dividends of at least $7.50 a share for the last thirty-nine years, and for the Inst fourteon years the rat hay boen $$ @ share, It has 139,448 share Holders The total 4 of the company in i were given o8 $929,868,246.10, as minat $926,781,088.60 for the previous year. . There wer ‘the safe by manipulating the tum- i blers. | thieves Get $1, $1,200 in Office ; of Paper Box Factory Where Many Are Working. HOL D-UP ON B. R. Ts I Mrs. Campbell, Ticket hein, Prostrated as Result of En- counter With Thieves. The third daring hold-up in Brook- lyn in twenty-four hours was re- ported to-day, It ook place in a United Cigar Store at No. 82 Court! Street, across the street from Bor- | ough Hall and in the centre of the busiest section of Brooklyn Wdward Bartel of No. 413 Fifty- eighth Street, Brooklyn, a clerk who was alone in the store, said that two flashily dressed young men entered the store last night while crowds of theatregoers and ‘others passed the door, They pointed a gun at him and forced him to keep still while they bound his hands and feet and gagged him with a handkerchief. Then they threw him behfnd the counter and began working gn the safe. 3 Bartel said the robbers, working in true Jimmy Valentine etyle, opened They took $300 from the cash box in the safe, he said, and escaped, Bartel managed to work loose the gag and yelled. The policeman on post liberated ‘him, . Bartel. said the ban- dits wore brown Fedora hats, but could give little other’ detailed infor- mation about them, Detective James Cunningham of the Adams Street Sta- tion is investigating the case, Mias Anna Rubin, twenty, is being congratulated to-day on saving $5,000 in the hold-up of her father’s office at No. 35 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, late yesterday by four masked gun men. Joseph Rubin, proprietor of the pa- per box factory; his son, Benjamin, and Miss Anna were the only ones in the office at the time. There were seventy-five employees in other parts of the building, but they knew noth- ing of the robbery until it was over, ‘The bandits rushed in, presented re- wolvers and ordered “hands up,” then ‘line up against the wall." Miss Rubin, as she got up, closed a drawer | Tremen Prieta ous Upheaval Throughout Russia Reported to the. Finnish Legation. ” | PEASANTS IN UPRISING, Workers Near Black Sea Also Said to Revolt Against Menshevik Government. * WASHINGTON, March 5.—Official information that the Soviet fortress at Kronstadt had into the hands of revolutionary troops was re- ceived to-day by the Finnish Lega- fallen tion. Other reports from Scandinavian sources declared conditions in both Moscow and Petrograd were serious, some of the preports stated that there was a pronounced movement among the troops against using force in deal- ing with the revolutionaries. A cablegram from the Mnnish For- eign Office at Helsingfors. said the revolutionists were. holding Lenine Commissaries as hostage. A wireless mesrage to this effect from Kronstadt, the despatch stated, was intercepted by the Finnish General Staff. The cablegram also sand wneon- firmed reports had reached Holsing- fors via Esthonia that “a tremendous upheaval reigns throughout Russia,” that the Moscow garrison refused to fight and that the greater part of Petrograd was. under the control of revolutionists.” LONDON, March 5.—Peasants and workers of the Province of Albkhasia, in the Black Sea district of the Re- public of Georgia, have revolted against the “Mensheviki Government,” it is declared in a wireless despatch from Moscow to-day, ‘At the invita- tion of the Mensheviki,” adds’ the message, “French warships are bom- barding the populated regions I{ber- ated by the insurgents.” [This despatch would indicate Soviets} This despatch would indicate that the Moscow wireless service was atill being operated by the A despatch from Helsingfors de- clares the anti-Soviet outbreak ts containing $5,000 without attracting, notice. The leader of the four took a box containing $1,200 of the weekly pay- roll and complained there ought to be more. Miss Rubin explained there were not as many people working as in the past because of trade condi- tions. They looked about, and the leader then said; “Well, I guess we've cleaned them out. Let's go!” Warning there would be “some lively shooting” if anybody made any fuss, the bandits backed out and escaped to an automobile that had been waiting 200 feet away. Miss Rubin handed her brother a revolver from the desk and sent him after them, but the robbers pointed revolvers at him and he wert back. Mrs, Mary Campbell of No. 294 Mon- tauk Avenue was unable to go on duty to-day, as a result of shock from be- ing held up at the Montauk Avenue Station of the B. R. T., af Montauk and Pitkin Avenues, Brownsville, at 3 A. M. yesterday, She is ticket agent at the westbound station, the eastbound being clowed at night. Two negro youths paid their fares and went to the-platform to wait for a train to New York. Seeing no one else about they went to the booth, stuck a revolver Mrs, Campbell's face and told her to keep sill While one kept her covered with the revolver the other wont into the booth {rgiq the counter, then the 81 4 handbag on the Daniel 1 490 (Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, drop- ped dead to-day at his home, He was found by his sister, Miss Sarah Payne, ation during 19: 19, 42,008 a 5 st The Hospital of miles oF no in ‘service wees | failure. © wala of tbe ieee aa who called Dr. Brunner of Bushwick mpaeth was caused e police ey Pay: Offieer in the aavy, spreading. The message asserts that Moscow and Petrograd are in the hands of the revolutionists, Riga messages have quoted the of- tical (Moscow papers ax printing reso- lutions adopted by Communistic la- borer 6 showing the existence of strikes and disturbances, and what was declared to be an official decia- ration signed by (Premier Lenine and War Minister Trotzky on March: 2, saying grave disorder had occurred and that Petrogard and the immedi- ate district had been placed in a state of siege, with all authority given into the hands of a committee of defense This declaration added that the for- mer Genral Kozlovski and othr of- fiers, backed by Socialists, had mu- tined on March 2 and arrested sev- eral of the Petrograd Soviet Admin- istrators COPENHAGEN, March 5.—Chinese troops have been concentrated at Moscow by the Russion Spviet Gov- ernment, says a Helsingfors despatch to the Berlingyke Tidende. Rallroad traffic is proceeding only east of Mos- cow toward Tomsk, Siberia. HELSINGFORS, March 5 (United Press).—Russian robela have seized the Baltic fleet and fortifica and tions, reports from E say 1- ors in Petrograd were reported flock x to the White Devel- opments indicated again for the white forces, whic appa ently were in command at Kronst. headquarters for the Haltic fleet 1 the naval training establishment —_ standard. s rine 0-7 Flonted Ag: NEW LONDON, Conn., March 5—| Submarine 0-7, which was ashore on 4 sand bank on the south side of in strength |’ FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD TO BE KEPT OUT OF POLITICS ' WILLIAM P. G. HARDING. Photo ty Cambell Stadio, Head -of Banking System Will Remain as Long as He Wishes, It Js Said. WASHINGTON, March 5.—William P. G. Harding of Alabama, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; is one Demo- crat who Is likely to remain in office indefinitely, according to common daltef here. President Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are credited with having profound admiration for the way Gov. Harding has handled financial affaizs and with desiring hin to remain in office as long as be veniently can, The attitude of the new President on thig subject caused general, satisfaction, as it indicated that the Federal Reserve system Is to be kept out of politics: Gov, Harding was arranging to leave the Government service to become head of the new Woreign Trade Finance Co: poration, but {t was said to-day he hud consented to defer his resigination ¢o the new Administration will have the benefit of bis services at the period of business depression. LANDLADY'S WIT BRINGS ARREST OF 2HOLD-UP SUSPECTS $188,000 in Stolen Bonds In- volved in Captures at ‘Ho- boken Rooming House. con- ‘The quick wit of a Hoboken room- ing house landlady, police withhold, day of two men said to be wanted for in whose name the led to the arrest to- major crimes Pennsylvania and Michigan. The woman sald the two men asked her for a room, and when she asked for their previous address gave a street and mumber which she knew to be that of a prominent mer- chant. She dissembled her suspicion, rented the room and then called the police, One of the prisoners is alleged to be Frank Wells, otherwise known as Carl Lordi, wanted In Detroit in cons nection with the holdup of Morton Brothers on Jen. 31, when $8,000 worth af bonds were stolen and three de- tectives shot in the flight for escape. ‘The other, the police y, has been ntified by Miss Helen Davis of) Wyomiring, Pa is one « the two men ty « m police say Mins Davis the ott aire | of $100,000 in Laverty bon m Fisher's Island, in Long Island Sound, wee pulled oa tale ‘moring. the Wyomising Bank if proveedii ry t him were dropped. L Entered as Second-Claan HUGHES PROMS SENDING |ness of the ne Matter my York, N. ¥. Of WARSHIPS 10 PANAMA AFTER TALK WITH HARDIN Hostilities Between Panama ani Costa Rica Discussed at White WASHINGTON, March 6.—Hostilities between Panama and Costa Rien was the first subject to occupy the attention to-day of the new Administras tion, President Harding had a long conference with his new seqretacsenie State, Charles Evans Hughes, regarding the situation and they called in ispatehes as to che Conflict between the Central American republics, Kn | Before calling on the President, WILSON NOT HURT Hughes discussed the subject at BY CAPITOL VISIT iensth. with Under Seoretary iG at the State Department. Ex-President Busies Himself at New | Fl#teber, who in to be the new Home Directing Hanging Secretary, was presented at this: c ference, but did not ac his of Pictures, chief to the White House. pe WASHINGTON, Mafoh 5.—Wword| When Mr. Hughes left the came to-day from the home of Wood- row Wilson that the former President apparently had suffered no ill effects from his visit yesterday to the Capitol. Mr, Wileon was up’at the usual hour this morning and busied himself about his new home, directing the hanging of pictures and arfungement of furniture, House he sald there was noth! be given out; that he had di number of subjects with the dent, On returning to his office Hughes conferred -with various’ @f ticera of the Latin-American Di who presented reports as to trouble between Panama and Rica, y Secretary Daniels, before he rendered office to Mr. Denby, the Gunboat Sacramento had ordered to Almirante in compl! with the request for warships | that Rear Admiral Bryan, commands Ing the ®pecial Service Saunt had been instructed to protect Amer tean lives and property if with whatever force he needed. stroyers were also sent to Almirante and the Gulf of Dulce, What other steps might be taken here was not indicated. It was stood that Secretary Hughes was accord with the notes sent by. the: retiring Administration urging the two governments to reach a peaceful settlement of their dispute. State De- partment officials were inclingd to view landing of Costa Rican troops” Deyond the frontiers of Panama aa) making the situation more complex, Mr. Hughes was understood to have approved the orders to the warships, The situation regarding the Istand of Yap also was understood to have been discussed between Mr. Hughes. and Mr, Davis, and the new Secretary — was reported to havb expresmed ape | proval of the action of the State Dee ~ partment fn the controversy regatiing —” cable communications at that island. ~ President Harding went to work early, appearing in the Executive Offices a few minutes after 9 O'clock and dictating to a stenogtapher for some time. He was accompanied te the offices by his father, Dr, George T. Harding, and his brother, Dr 4 i 300 TOY “BABIES” DIE IN FIRE—O-0-OH! Make-Believe Little Ones “Perish” in Doll Exhibit at Hotel _ _ Breslin. ‘Three hundred bablea were burned to death to-day—now, walt a minute, they were only dolls—in a room on the seventh floor of the Hotel Breslin, Those that were not quite consumed were dismembered, decapitated and otherwise mutilated in the efforts to put out the fire that started among them, When the fire was at last put out, the floor of the room was littered with arms, legs, heads and cinders of draperies, There was no panic in the hotel, elther among the dolls or the guests of the establishment who manned the fire hose and put out the flames. The dolls were a trade exhibition of the Averill Manufacturing Com- pany of No. 37 Union Square, Just before noon V. O. Hopf, one of the salesmen, saw a flash on a shelf of dolls and a moment later the entire shelf, dolls and all, was ablaze, He called to A. T. Whitbeck, an- other salesman, and in stripping off the draperies they burned their bands slightly, The smoke brought guests of the hotel to the scene and @ moment Iater the hose had been run out and turned on the “nursery.” Someone eent in a fire alarm but the blaze was out by the time the ap- paratus and firemen arrived, AIREDALE DOG GIVEN TO HARDING Named “Caswell Laddie Boy,” Son of Champion of the l 1 States. WASHINGTON March Pre lent Harding was presented to-day with Airedale dog, “Caswell Lad- die Boy,” which bec of the fond- y Chief Executive for dogs, 1s expected to become the most ular of the White House pets, presentation was made by Charles W. Quetache of Toledo, Ohio, who suid the father of Laddie Boy was “Tender and Tip Top,” champion Airedale of the United George T. Harding jr. The new President was up early and had breakfast with his femily, Early callers at the White House in- cluded Henry C. Wallace, the new Secretary of Agriculture, and Her bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Harding's Bret dictation waa given to Miss Eva B. Ubi, and Bis Coranella Mattern, who will be hit personal -stenographers. ‘They haves been with him since his nomination: Miss Mattern was his stenographer in the Senate and Miss Uhl, prior last worked for Senator of West Virginia, The use of stenographers is an innovation, mer Presidents having employed Senator Lodge and Rep: Mondell, Republican Congress called at the White House in the ea aU une