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(>) been tractured. ‘The character of the attack on M ) ‘Wilmot led the police to believe it m: Rave been committed by the san $49 York Street, + under sim! in the woods aear 8. L The murder of M Jersey Cli i f ‘Kissell, who was twenty-four years) ene, ren, never has been solved, Saturday night, when the nol: half a block away. rain obliterated such clues as in the mud and finger on her flesh and umbrella, but ‘the investigators found enough to wliow the murder was committed by of brutal strength, who wore ts clothing and heavy boots. “Whether robbery was one motive is ‘bt settled. Some of he jewelry sho ‘was found near the body, and js missing, but may have been trampled in the mud. Her pockebook ed. EXIT FROM TOWN WA GUARDED. ‘Wilson, No. 78 Centre Street, shortly after usual to trifle, and Alderman Kell dogs being his own. an Ze i her mother lived, It was umbrella open, placed sist — tind “dragged bor friend Miss gg away. THREE MORE BRUTA *SUNDAY MURDERS Franke a couple en Passaic Storekeeper Slaii *—Man Dead Near Metuchen. a Ne ee 2 I ak mishing store, * vu once ! le > >’ x Hi check of the Flatbush Gas Company, Wassaic, N. J. His hands and fect|0f information available here ‘Indl- | the evidence the other side possesses Unalie to Carry Of Furniture, ee - cates that Gre —fi more tha is mentioned in the t hich he worked as a clerk, fron were bound and a towel was wrapped | oie sue pe ently aT Sagisint: has |e ms ards Foo, Great Neck Burglars Hone cowmillt ore than : pate 7 ‘ons totalling more ¥ about bis head and face.|put will accept the author without|MR. LITTLETON THREATENS TO Escape With Hooch onfeon found in the. ofl had ransacked the place, | protest. WITHDRAW, npany officials said to-day, declar- Dus wot littie of value. Col. Harvey became very close to Fe During the absenee of the family and] ing other clerks were implicated. | ‘The Mr. Harding during the latter part|, MT. Littleton protested against) servants yesterday afternoon, thieves| Officiils said MeGowan had confessed She. body of Nicola Papa, Afty-one,| of the summer, He in credited eith | S8Y more delay in the case and held | rye inte the home of Isaac K, Wot, | Dens, friendly with an actross who 23. Lewis Street, Newark, was| the authorship of a large part of the|{® the fact that the Supreme Court) eee v4 e a at bile gui 4 more money than his ealary af- mA. yesterday. in @ half fnishea|*boech whercin Mr. Harding turned | Had already ruled Wallace out of the} % rir Coke see alee forded, aS Bokeh on che Laawus at henaes |ouse 1 liquor supplies, Jewelry, sliver: x) low he had been building at| fis back on the angen oF Aone ") want to protect you In every} ware and clothing estimated at $5.000./ DENTIST FIGHTS BURGLAR. x Raritan Township, near Metuchen.| miinu Root catted from London y," the Court sald. ; Mr, Wolf, who ts a real estate bro- = ; heaii had been crushed with a| urging Mr. Harding not to say that per eonohs y t protect MC] Ker at No, 1270 Broadway, Manhattan, | si¢ on Head by Allewed Robber He Sy) Slunt weapon and @ stab wound un- Jena ohare wer ange oc ry Oy That | oe" aaindte in sd was celebrating the aixty-firet birthday Finda in Offtee, der the left car had severed the. BOETAtn, can bo disclosed, was r zs anniversury of his father Abraham * yo. 220 ‘s addressed to George Harvey, who|Unaue to bring o my client any | 8? ¥ M brat A Ught in his dental office at No, 2%8 _ gpinal column. was visiting at Mr. ardtae home. |More than you can protect me against | Wolf, in Groat Kk. Mrs. Wolf and] mast Broadway attracted the attention An autopsy will be held to-day to] The story goes that Mr. Handing | the str ie surrounds Lan two servants ulso wero at the elder) of Dr, Irving Gumlonaky as he delermine if @ woman whose body tarew ten ram into the waste man, nae She cours ean ind seine Wolf's home, passing It on his way home at 4,30 Was found on the beach at Fort pusket and ac epted the opinions of is a When Mr. Wolf returnal he found! o'clock this morning. Investigating, he SUMtecsih stearvation, i, yootars| Se thal esc tke MNS | a a Ponte tae lean pea ie tia pening." Ialventieating, be Ey any . rs ome’ forward nd he entered through: wine! “ ‘called n fough bo waa qpurcered. .Bhe was about| If Col. Harvey gots to Europe it ja! who goes to Europe becamien a con. | Ant he entered through # window, Tha} | Palle and SOURS Se two years old, 5 fect"? inches|™* 9 candied oppaasat of the prevent vert to the Sdoa will we ine the send- ee ee enya enad after. striking Dr, Gerdonsky with @ + a League of Nationa, he le verte me 0! he Colonel as a personal envoy ¢ Owe ne ui x avin jinuny "Haneda that Mrs. Wilson's aul bad who killed Mra, Jennie Kussell lar olroumy ‘West New | i ' old and the mother of several chil- Wilson was slain during the downpour and wind would have Ber cries, and a fog from in made it impossible to see w Picture of Mrs. Jake Hamon, Near Collapse in Murder Trial ay ne HARD FIGHT EAN ** NAMING OF HARVEY AS AMBASSADOR | Flood of Protests Sent to) ° White House and Members of Congress, ‘(O BRITISH ty, | ~ | nt | : DISSENT. i Republicans Say Mere Opposi- | tion to Wilson Now Does Not Qualify Him. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, March 4 (Copy- right, 1921)—Protesta against the ap- pointment of Col. George Harvey as American Ambassador to Great Bri- tain have been pouring ito the White House an well as to folks in Congress who are presumed to have influence with President Harding. Theso protests seem to be based upon the idea that without reflecting the slightest upon Col, Harvey eome distinguished American whose Re- publicaniem was based on service to the party other than mere ortticilem of the Wilson Administration might bo given the place, Strangély enough, after all that Col, Harvey has written to ro- move any taint of Wilsonism from his makeup, it is still romembered that ‘he was the original Wilson man. In| 80 far as the Republicans are revert- ing to Republicanism, they cannot forgive Col. Harvey's original sin— the creation of Wilson—much as he | th 1 | Ketch was an accessory after the SENATE LEADER BACKED COL. HARVEY. Broadly speaking, tho opposition to Col. Harvey's appointment is tho the most sensational incident of HAS CLARA S. HAMON Writes He Doesn't Care THREAT 10 QUIT IN One found nearby, with its contents 4 of Perth Amboy aroused the crime, the first “ripper mur- _* der” there in thirty years. Mrs, Wil- ‘who was organist at the Simpson ire Church, was known to hundreds of ber beauty and talent. Be- being active in concert work, gave music lessons to about fifty twenty-eight, was & feet 4 inches tall, weighed 180 pounds, and waa more than pretty, with black curly hair extraordinarily dark blue eyes. and her mother, Mrs, Dilzabeth went to Perth Amboy from Mass, about four years ‘ago. She began teaching music at noe and over since that time had all Pupils she could care for and had Pan oe at several churches. young woman left her home, Saturday night. It was bogin- to rain and site carried an um- ttle after midnight there was barking and yelping be heard close by the apartments as the rain sub- to wee what the trouble was, n lot, separated only by jouse from the big apart- ling where be and Mrs. the found the young woman's lying in the mud, ‘street and the white of her face from b ‘passersby. had been a struggie, prob- brief but fierce. The wet heavy boots of the man. of the lot was torn up by the heeled shoes of the woman and ly Mrs, Wilson was seized into the lot from the @ few minutes after she left HERE UNSOLVED Woman Found on Staten Island im the rear of his men's fur- Bamuel Kohn, sixty-two, was ; Journment of such length to 3 f these were normal times the/you (addressing Mr Littlet Joana murdered yesterday in biW) yiitiah Government would decline to|mect this ovidence. You wou TAKEN BY THIEVES 9. 86 Monroe Street, weighed 110 pounds, She ind wedding “tuux | fore, those the Harding Administration thus far. Whether or not he is appointed, the true story of why he was selected will evar be a source of curiosity. It ia known that the leaders in the Sen- ate have not asked for the appoint- ment It is known that some of them while admitting Col. Harvey's briliance question whether he is temperamentally qualified for the post. Politics enters into it somewhat too, for the writer bas it on reliathe authority that Col. Harvey is not considered by! President Harding as one responsible for 4he nomination at Chicago jast June. It will be re- called that many publivhed roports said that Col. Harvey helped nomi- nate Warren Harding. There {8 good reason to believe that President Har- ding held a contrary view as to how he was nominated and that he still dalleves Col, Harvey was much moro interested in the candidacy of Will Hays than anybody else at Chicago, INTIMATE FRIEND OF G. ©. P. MONEY GETTER, Col, Harvey and William Boyce Thompson, who was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Republican finance organization, are Antimate friends, Mr. Thompson has been largely concerned with ways and means of making up the campaign deficit and be is a power in Republican circles just now. But the point is that Col. Harvey comes [rom a wing of the Republi- can Party which has not always been considered the “original Harding” Whether She Is Guilty or Not. | ARDMORE, Okla, March 14. LARA SMITH HAMON has C {itty proposals for marriage, her attorneys sald to-day. Letters for the chic and pretty defendant have been received from men all. THE STOKES CASE (Continued From First Page.) the same table, in the same red cra- vat; behind them, Hal Billig, one of the co-respondents, in horn specta- cles; Mrs. Miller, a diminutive, en- ergetic woman, who Is evidently very keenly in sympathy with her dangh- ter, Mrs. W. B. D. Stokes, and behind the front row of benches three other rows filled with idly curious people who had stood in line for an hour or more in order ‘to get into the court- room. At the door of the room, which has large glass panela, there The resumed testin are always two or three faces, arose a pressed as closely against the manes withdrew the separate acti as the court officers will permit, very Mrs. Stokes in which W named as co-respondent. envious of those lucky enough to Mr, Littleton—You can't do that! have seats within. Mr. Smyth—What do you want? Mr, Littleton held that it was tak-| Mr. Littleton—Trot ont all the ing an unfair advantage of Wallace %andal you wish to read into the to bring him into this case when he Hinsthiaald hat by. renect-oF js specifically named in another case. tra expense involved in pre: Mr, Smyth said he would be willing #enting new witnesses he was willl to ascept an adjournment of the case *°,Ray, Whatever the witnenses to permit Mr. Wallace to come here Littleton retorted. His further o from San Francisco, jf Mr, Littleton jections to the testimony of the wit- ahould not be satistied with an am- ness were overruled as rapidly as davit from him. Continuing his long Mey were made. en! re the cour’ r, Sm, Giclee ge qrehment belore the court, Mr. Smyth «RTE WORK FORCE PLAINTIFF NEARLY THROUGH 1S CUT 20 PER CENT Also “I don't care whether you are found guilty or innocent, T want to murry you, anyway,” said one He enclosed his ardent pict: lover, fuse to go on with the case if the Wallace evidence is admitted.” The court then decided against Mr. lAttleton and Mrs. Matteossian w: recalled to the w' se 7 ly WITH CASE. “We are practically through | with our testimony in this case. | Railroad Announces It Will wing. | Nevertheless, this bit of tric- tale Sgeithat which relstes to | Reduce ‘Wages About 20 jon hus been to a large extent allace.” Der Ci i v4 patched PD, and the fact that Col} Mr, Littleton stated to the Court Ber Gent on} ADR 10. ont Pe Peg eceeedeante a that Wallace's name was known to| HORNELI, N. ¥,, March 14 -- Great Britain is tormedorshiD | t0| Mir, stokes's attorney, Mr. Gleason, in duction of approximately 20 per cent, in itive that Warren Harding hae tor.| 1920, when the attorney appeared be- |*!! working forces, with the exception given such activity as Col, Harvey| fore Judge Ben Lindsey in Denver in| train and engine crews, was ordered manifested against him at Ghicage.| the action for the custody of the|DY the Brie Railroad to-day, OMmecials There is another question involved ¥ uaid the cut was made for the purpose in the Harvey appointment. It is the | Stk children. He pointed out that) of halnncing payrolls to offset the higher future of Harvey's Weekly, which has | though Wallace's name and identity | wagos restored to unskilled laborers. been #o bitterly critical of ‘the Wilaon| were known a year or more ago it| About $00 employees In the Hornell re- Administration that unless it were to| Was not until the present action was| gion were suspended of|adopt a similar role toward the] about to be set for trial that an effort 1 al ‘ . Harding Administration, it would] Was made by the Stokes forces to he company -disoennounced ite in- have to proceed on an altogether new | amend the complaint to incli#le Wal tention to cut wages on April 10 to the figure prevailing before the Federal Labor Board awarded an increase last line of tactios—a defensive and apolo- gotic role, Some of my British lace's name, Justice Ford of the Su- preme Court denied the application of L friends who are curious to know the| the Stokes attorneys to make the] July. reasons for the appointment say they | amendment, This will mean a out of about 20 have been told Mr, Harding ia as| “Afd with this decision upon the]... cent. in the wages of all employees eager to have Harvey's Weekly dis- (case, 1 matotain it is audacious of the + he Craik’ RAO ena oF continued as others in the Republi-|other side to try again to bring this] °xcer rely iy san nine ‘onews. 3 can party are anxioun that ahould |man. into this case whon it has been|{# sald that the wage scales of these be continued, These latter folks think | decided that he has no place in it.” | employ who are members of the Justice Finch said that he rvod it more fair to both sides to admit ce in reference to Wail to grant an Rig Four Brotherbood, will be taken up later. $2,000 IN LIQUOR Col. Ha ought to be on the job to answer Democratic criticisms. NO PROTEST FROM THE BRIT- ISH IS LIKELY. in accept Col, Harvey anti-British writings, @ certain advantage, to would because of his in that but every bit L have at your disposal to Lhe opposite viewpoint while abroad of Mr. Hardin; It is through trusted | been’ piled Gp in one room as though | Mr Harding will be converted. There- friends like Co}, Harvey that Prosi> | preparatory to removal, According to who believe the, ot t Harding must be convinced if he! two, polive, Uquor stocks worth $2,009 THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROH 14, toa1,' SHEARS HE GAVE CLARA S. HANGN $5.00 10 ESCAPE ‘Hamon’s Business Partner Told , Woman on Trial to Go and “Keep Going.” ARDMORE, Okla, March 14.—Er- rett Dunlap, personal friend of Jake Hamon, for whose killing Clara Smith Hamon fs being tried for nur- der, was tho first witness for the State to-day. He sald Hamon told hin Clam shot him, corroborating the tevtimony of other witnesses, Frank Ketch, personal friend and business associate of Hammon, fol- lowed, George Hodges, Assistant Prosecutor, protested against Ketoh’e testifying. “Three witnesses,” ould he, “have given testimony here that Frank fact, that he guve the defendant $5,000 and made her get out of town. I de mand the witness be dismismed.” Hodres was overruled. “Tamon said to me," said the wit- ness, "'Frank, I'm never going to get well’ ‘Jake, where is she, | asked. ‘I aid it mywelf,’ Jake said, ‘Don't tell me that, | answered.’ "He sald he wanted It given out that he did it himself. He sutd, ‘tell the world some kind of a story und tell Clara to leave town!’ He told me to give Clara $5,000.” Mr. Ketch testified that Clara Hamon till ts interested in several (business projects both with the Hamon estate and with him person- | ally. Ketch outlined Clara's property as 3-120th interest in an oll lease, a th interest In another lease, a guod paying plece of property from which ther income had been as high an 100 to 100 a month, $6,000 worth of stock in another oil company, and stock in a motion pioture show. Ketch alm said Hamon ‘bad given Clam a ten-karat diamond, Ketch sald he wrote his personal check for $5,000, guve the money, to Olarn and Inter reimbursed himself from amon’s money with & voucher as ihe had been authorized, Ketch said he ‘went back to the office and sent for Clara Hamon and told her: “Clara, you've got to go They decided, he said, she take the next train to Durant. Durant Clara talked with Kitch said, and he told her South and “‘keep going.” Ketch said he reported to Hamon what he had done, ‘but defense ob- jected to the testimony and the Court sustained, ‘She shot me in my room in the dark,” he said Hamon anid. “He did not say anything about how he was lying but said “something about & struggle for the gun,” he testified Mrs. Juke L Hamon, the widow, whom It had deen intended to have take the witness stand at the morn- ing session, was too nervous to tes- tify, although she was In the court- room, When at 11 o'clock the State had exhausted its avallable witnesses, excepting Mrs, Hamon, it asked for ar 6 until out of town witnesses should be available. Attorney General Freeling sald it would not require more than fifteen mimites to present the remainder of would From him, to go HEADS OF RAILWAYS CALLED TO TESTIFY Summoned on Refusal of ‘Labor Union ‘Council to Go On With Wage Inquiry. CHICAGO, March 14.—The Ratl- road Labor Board to- requested four railroad heads to appear before it Wednesday morning to testify in the hearing over the national agree- ments. The men summoned were 'T. de Witt Cuyler, Chairman of the Asrociul of Rafiroad Bxecutives; W. W. Atterbury, Vice President of Pennsylvania; Carl Re Gray, President of the Union Pacific, and R. S. Binkerd, “assistant to Mr, At- terbury. The decision to summon the men was made in executive session after Frank P, Walsh, attorney for the four brotherhoods had refused to go on with rebuttal testimony unless the witnesses were called. the HELD Fo. 3.) SING CHECK. Others Impticated in Charge Against Gax Company Clerk, George MeGowan, thirty-four, of No. 3010 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, was to-day before Magistrate in the Flatbush Court, charged by Detective Owens with grand larceny for having, as alleged, raised a As the thief ran the dentist blew police whistle and Policeman Newman nd arrested Frank i Rowwick, iy "Sintat Sage aad . situation con- is to lews about co-Opera had disappeared, Mr, Wolf i. therwsalves som with Gay H3,000" would cover the endre toe Cee eae igs ee RAIL HEADS TELL EVENING WORLD « THEIR STAND ON WAGES AND RATES (Continued from First Page.) to & polnt where the companies are assured a return in accordance with the provisions of the Transportation Act, I think any general reduction tn transportation charges ts extremely doubtful, although Ib may be posstble to make adjustments in some cases where the prosent Fates are found excessive. Wages and Salaries First—Then Rates. RALPH PETERS (President Long Island Railroad). (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) The Long Island Rallroad, like other roads, Is suffering from the Ligh cost af operation due to the wages anc working conditions estab- shed by the Federal Administration and the Railroad Labor Boar’. While it hag not yet completed the advance in all of its rates, such ad~ vances must be mado, and ih addition to that a reduction in wages and wUaries must also be brought about to enable the company to earn & return upon Ita property investment. The Toard of Directors on Thurs- any last authorized the executive officers to take such steps as may be necessary under the Transportation Act of 1920 to accomplish the reduc- fon in wages and salartes. When this hus been done and the railroad has shown its ability to earn @ return upon its property Investment the Question of reduced rates of freight and fares will certainly be taken” ander conmideration. Three Factors Responsible for Increased Rates. F. D. UNDERWOOD (President Erie Railroad). (By Wire to the Editor of The Bvening World.) Freight rates and passenger fares were increased to mect a situation created by high mbor costs, high ratea for money and high prices for materials. With these three factors brought to a normul basis, Jn equity the rates and fares should be reduced. ‘The Interstate Commerce Commission Is exercising a constant and comprehensive supervision over the acoounts of railways, and when in its opinion a reduction in ratea and fares is possible it will undoubtedly be but in effect. The people are securely protected against unjust rates through their constituted body, the Interstate Commerce Commission. Lower Rates the Great Need of Farmers. C. R. GRAY (President Union Pacific). (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) OMAHA, March 14.—Your wire received. ‘The general rate basis under present law is dot determined by any one road. ‘The inovement by railroads to obtain a lower wage for unskilled labor agd a read- Justment of certain working conditions among the skilled wrifts, which adversely affect efficiency, is justified not only by the urgent necessity of railroads to reduce operating expenses, but as a simple justice to employers generally, including; farmers and stock ruisers who are be- ing greatly injured by the high scale of wages pald by railroads. It is axiomatic that lower operating costs must eventually result in lower rates, but just how soon this result can be attained is dependent upon resumption of business. The rate fabric applies to all of the carriers in one region and not to individual ralironds, ‘Rate Cut Should Follow Fall in Wages. CHARLES DONNELLY (President Northern Pacific Railway). (By Wire to the EXiitor of The Evening World) ST. PAUL, Minn; March 14—In anawer to your wire would say the Northern Pacific Railway Company favors such readjustments in railroad rates as may be necessary to admit of the free movement of trafic and we think readjustments should be made whenever operat- ing expenses, of which wages form the greater part, shall have been 80 reduced as to justify making them. Satisfactory Forecast Cannot Now Be Made. 8. DAVIES WARFIELD (President Seaboard Air Line Railway), (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) BALTIMORE, March 14—Answering your telegram; no railroad ia wise enough to determine what reduction, if any, can be made in railroad rates, Owing to the unprecedented and rapid decline In bust- ness a satisfactory forecast cannot yet be made. Therefore any assur- ance wnder these conditions as to reduction of rates is prematu'e, Doubts if Rate Reduction Would Stimulate Business. FRANK H ALFRED (President Pere Marquette Railroad). (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) DETROIT, Mich., March 14,—Railroads under Transportation Act are permitted to earn 5% per cent. upon property value as fixed by Interstate Commerce Commission; rates should therefore be increased or decreased as operating resulte make necessary an order to yield this return. The present volume of business moving makes it impossible to re- duce rates in proportion to reduction made in wages. Unfortunately, the increase in wages wus based upon Incrense in rates as applied to a yoar when the volume of business moved was tho largest ever moved in tbe history of American roads. It would seem to me it Ix the duty of the commission to see that with the reduction of wages the rates are such that will yield not to excced the amount authorized in Transportation Act. Advance in ratos was uniform as to each of rate grovps, and it would seem that if rates were fair as applied to different commodities before increase, then they should at this time be equitable, and it would be dangerous to under- take to reduce the rates on the particular commodities with expecta- tion that reduction would stimulate movement of business. Question of etfect of rates upon movement of business is very complex and should be approached only after careful study and not in haste, No Danger of Excess Earnings, Says President Byram. H. BYRAM (President Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad) (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) . CHIOAGO, 1U., March 14,—Reduction in railroad war wages now pre- vatling is inevitable, and decrease in railroad freight rates would be helpful tn restoring normal business conditions. The Transportation Act fixes limit on railroad earnings, and reduction in operating cost would naturally be reflected in reduced freight rates if earnings should exceed the Jegal limit. At present there is no danger of excess earnings, Fears Endless Chain in Wage and Rate Reduction. W. H. BREMNER (President Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad) (By Wire to the Editor of The Fvening World.) . MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, March 14—Under present rates railroads at the country are not earnings a reasonable return and many of our principal railroad systems are not even earning operating expenses, ‘To reduce expenses by reductions in waxes and immediately followed by a reduction in rates would seem to mean the starting of an endless chain with no end in sight. Iam heartily in favor of a reduction in railroad rates whenever railroad earnings are such as to justify. Adjustment Between Wages and Rates Must Be Correct. E. PENNINGTON (President Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic). (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) MINNBAPOLIS, Minn., March 14—The railroads must have reduc tion in operating expenses. I do not favor reduction in rates other than tome adjustment at present time, We should find out first before rates soe wuched, with normal business. that the adjustment between wages and rates is correct, Rate Cut Should Meet Wage Decrease. J. M. KURN (President St. Louis and Santa Fe Railroad) (By Wire to the Bditcr of The Bvening World.) WASHINGTON, March 14.—If there is a successful cancellation of national agreements at the hearing now before Wage Board, Chicago, and a readjustment in wages, all will be in favor of a proportionate docrease in freight and passenger rates. Says Pre-War Rates Were by Far Too Low. J. & PYEATT (President Gulf Coast Lines), (By Wire to the Editor of The Byening World.) HOUSTON, Tex, March 14.—When #8 paid by railroads can be reduced to basis paid by other industries and justified by reduced cost of living and material, and supplies principally used by railroads are teduced accordingly, I think there should be a reduction in ratee apply- ing to first class trafic, the movement of which is restricted by present rates. The public should understand, however, that pre-war freight and passenger rates were far too low and canot be restored without com- pletely destroying railroad credit Needs of Nation and Return to Owners First. €. J. PEARSON (President New York, New Haven and Hartford). (By Wire to the Baitor of The Byening World.) NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 11.-—I certainly faver a plan which ‘will decrease railroad expen: id rates, provided sufficient net income be left to enable railroads wide for future needs of Nation and pay @ fair return to owners, ” —s oe = ——* “ey = | ARMOUR WORKERS TOVOTEONAUING VE IN BUSES Ballot on Industrial Democ- racy Plan to Be Taken To- ‘Morrow—Strike Delayed. CHIGAGO, March 14.—Armotr & Oo to-day called un election in ali of ite plants for to-morrow fer the employ- fos to choose representatives to form an industrial democracy in which workers and employers would have equal representation and which would settle all questions of working eondl- tions, wages and houre in the Armour plants. The representatives elected to-mors row will form a temporary bound which will work out permanent plans, The announcement of the packing oom- pany said that It was planned eventa- ally to have a plant conference board of five memters in each plant and « gener conference board of three members, selected from all planta, The outline of the proposed plan as given out by Armour © Co, sald that when the representatives of employer and employee could not agree én any matter the questien could be referred to an arbitrator, ‘The 100,000 workers in the packing houses of Chicago and other cities continued work to-day at the re- duced wage ecale announced by the operatives. They will work pending the outcome of a vote on the ques tion of calling a strike, the result of which wil be known on Friday. Meanwhile five of the owners of hig packing houses have accepted the of- fer of mediation by the Secretary of will send re enlauves Labor and re +9 Washington on Friday. J. Ogden Armour, in a statement accompanying the announcement of the industrial democracy plan sata the meat packing industry “had reached a situation where there must be greater co-operation between em= ployers and employees.” “With a view to making geal eo operation possible,” he sald, “a plan has been evolved whereby employees are to share with the management in the knowledge of all conditions of mutual interest, When orcanization has bee neffected means will thereby bu provided for prompt and orderly consideration of all matters ol rau~ tual Interest, such as wages, hours of labor, working conditions, sanitary and Safety measures Dennis Lane, secretary of the Amalianated Order of Meat Cutters ind Butcher Workers of North America, said he was pleased with the present situation. “The men have returned to work pending the strike vote and there were no runanvay strikes,” he eaid. Mr, Lane refused to say when @ strike would be «alled if the vote wag for one, but indicated that there would be no delay. Payers Swamp Pest- Offices. ‘The general postoffice and eM the branches were swamped to-day with and women seeking to buy ey orders to pay their Income he rush had been expected were ready, but Income Tax men and extra clerks there were not enough to handle the rowds quickly, especially at the luncheon hour there were long lines Wailing at every money order win- dow. _ Gax Lenk Explosion Wrecks Windows A leaking. gas pipe in the cellar of the Auerback Tire Company of No. 1011 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, ex- ploded to-day and lore a hole in the or of th building, ae well Me every window in the store. Patrolman August Deutach of Traffic Squad D, ruahed into the cel- lar and turned off the gas, no one was hurt. FF - Non-alcoholic Vermouth ND now in the ** French fila- vor also! Just as good as that other popular preserver of “private stocks” ~Mouquin’s non- alcoholic — Ttalian Vermouth — but made for those who like the French flavor better, It tastes just like the old time stuff. Aek for Mouquin beverages by name, Tmitations are une satisfactory SMOKE OUR CIGARES GONIFACE, AMWeEouquiry Restaurant & Wine Co., 188 Prince St., N. Y, ‘Phone Spring 5845 ( Notice to Advertisers Display wivertising type copy and. release ordert roritber the week day Morning World oF The i after d BoM the World Coty contal r made by The World mus be recelved by 1 P, Display advertising type copy for the Supple of The “Sunday World must be Prides, | Cop by Ths Wor! Sunday Main Sheet copy, not been reveled Dy 4 a th has nok Deen recelved In by 1PM. Priday type cony_ which Mri nd Not fecelved by OM. 4 be ed ax conditions require, rigldiy iw tog order uf Iatea recelst and yomittre relguag crder.