The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1921, Page 1

a eat a Nanny a FIGHT ON TRACTION BILL ON IN ALB ors nines We Weather—FAIR; VOL. LXI. NO. 21,689- COLDER. L_ STREET | Tie | “ Cireutatio: | “Circulation oo a Books Open to Alt.”| EDITION Conrriant, 39% (The -DAILY. =— to All,”’ Press Fubiishing "Yor World). rid, { “Circulation Books Open to Al? ] taal. To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR, “ EDITION ERGe 28 Entered as second-| Cham Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. PRICE THREE CENTS ‘NEW “YORK, WEDNESDAY, “MARCH 16, HOOVER PLANS TO BOOM FOREIGN TRADE HARDING 0 X'S PLAN 10 BOOM EXPORTS URGED BY HOOVER (RicwaiBians—s Expected to Mean Much for Business Revival and Per- manent Development. TO AID ALL U. S. TRADE Private Corporations Under Edge Law to Be Basis for the Commercial Effort. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, March 16 (Copy- right, 1921).—President Harding has epproved a course of action that may mean more for the prosperity of america—ite business revival and permanent development—than any- thing else that has happened since the dose of the Huropean war. American business men are to be mobilized through their respective trades and industries. The United States Government is again to render a measure of co- operation with private business which made possitie during the war the building wp of a huge export trade, but which since then has deen allowed to lapse, partly through the dissolu- tion of war agencies and partly through the failuceof the American Government to prociatm a definite forsign policy towurd Burope. Thorough discussion by President Harding and his Cabinet of pians, which will be largely tn the hands of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce, hax led to the conviction that America must lave foreign markets 1s the way out of her industrial and agri- cultural depression, and that the Americun Government must adopt womewhat the same attitude of help- fulness toward private business as European Governments are adopting. Secretary Hoover will, therefore, enil to Washington, the representa- tives of al! trade and industrial vod- tes. The leather manufacturers, the hoe dealers, the lumbernien, the grain men—indeed, All who huve any- thing that can be sold abroad—will be summoned here in an effort to bring about an agreement in each in- dustry so aS to benefit the whole trade, ‘The establishment not me! of permanent committees to co-oper- ate with the Department of Com- merce in Washington, but something even more far reaching than that is contemplated, namely, Americun ex- port houses «broad. The trauble sbout the whole question of foreign trade heretofore has been that Amer- joun firms either have not been per- mitted to combine or have been un- willing to do 80 because of competi tive conditions on this side of the Atlantle, PLAN COMBINATIONS TO PRO- MOTE ALL AMERICAN TRADE. The effort of the United States Government will be to obtain com- binations not in restraint of indi- vidual trade but in promotion of all (Continued on Fourth Page.) = FIRE ON STEAMSHIP Is FOUGHT BY CREW Blaze in Oi Soaked Rubbish Morgan Liner Put Out Before Department Men Arrive, Quartermaster Wiliam Museails the Morgan Line stegmship, Le! Orienta, at the foot of Jane“Street, North liver, discovered smoke coming from the en gine rom at 4 A. M. to-day sounded the fire call and dir ovew as it ran a line of hose down and fought the flames, which wera in some ojl-soaked rubbish. When city firemen and two firehoats on arrived the fire was practically oui The dami was slight. The ship. which is 450 feet long and 7,000 groax tonnage, arrived yesterday from Gal weaton @0tion ané copper, te - ot | He | ed the} ‘Boston Mayor, in Tatters, Sleeps at Free Lodging To > See How Jobless Fare Peters Chops Wood for Break- | fast of Oatmeal, Bread and | Coffee— Anxious to Get Work for the Homeless. BOSTON, March 16—lt was « weary and a tattered Mayor of Bos- ton who came to City Hall to-day. Mayor Andrew U. Peters seeking to learn at first hand conditions and how the city Is meet- ing them spent the night incognito at Waytfarers' Lodge where the city shelters the homeless and feeds them in the morning. In a room with forty unfortunates he fay on a municipal bed and said he slept fairly Well. He was routed out at 6 o'clock and sent to the wood pile, After four hours there it was decided he had earned his breakfast and with the oatmeal, bread and caffe eaten he| wont to City Hall. The figure with frayed coat and faded hat was halted| at the door of the Mayor's office and it was not until bis secretary sow unemployment him that he was recognized and ad- mitted. ! Mussed-zp raincoat, muddy boota,' old brown guit and faded flannel abirt | with a faded handkerchief as a neck pieca had effectually disguised the former Congressman and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. ‘The Mayor threw bis weatherbeaten | hat on the glass topped table, dropped | | into a restful armchair and remarked | to his staff that it was the first really | comfortable minute he had had since he entered Waytarere' Lodge las night at 10 o'clock. “Chopping wood {s cartainly an ex- cellent way lo get up an appetite,” he added. fore we could stop werk and go in for} breakfast. | * “As a whole, the Wayfarers’ Lodge is to be congratulated on the way it is run., The quarters aro well kept and clean, The men I saw at tho lodge were strong, able bodied, able to work and, I assume, willing to work. “T saw absolutely no signs of drink | \or dissipation. I am most anxions to} help to get employment for those men. | “{ went up to the Superintendent of the Lodge, whom I have met thare before, and wishing to male somo pleasant remark, asked him if he didn’t know a good many of the peo- ple who came in there, He gave mo a cold eye and said, ‘I don't have to know any one I don’t want fo He was at the door when I left and 1| said that I would come back somo | time and that I hoped he would re- member me.” BILL TO RAISE PAY OF MAYOR BEATEN Senate Passes Measure to Abolish Office of New York City Chamberlain. ALBANY. March 16.-—l'he Simpson bill, designed to abolish omce of | Chamborlain of the City of New York, was passed by the Senate to-day. | Tho Downing bill, intended to in- orcase the salaries of the Mayor, Comp troller and other New York City om. cial, failed of passage, 22 to 11 WIFE NOT MISSING | SAYS C. V. HERBERT Son of Composer Unable to Un- derstand How Disappearance Story Originated CHICAGO, March 18,—Indignant de nin! was made to-day by Clifford Vic: tor Herbert, son of the noted composer at hin wife had mystoriously disap: peared and that kidnapping hy rebbers feared Mrs. Horhert left Saturday to visit hor other in San Diego, Cal” he ox There y mystery about hi tever and J um al a loss tou derstand how | contrary reports mained Giculation, |she said, ALPETER SINT, HINTS THAT STOKES WILL NOT TESTIFY. TOHELP HIS CASE That He Can Swear “as to Acts of Cruelty.” ‘There was more servant girl texti- W. E. D. ste! | to-day in the divorce action her hus- band has brought in the Supreme Court, and this, also, bad to do with Mrs. Stokes's presence tn Edgar T, Wallac 85th mony agninst Mrs, Kes "s apartment at No. 13 East Street. The testimony was given by Agri- cola Byers, formerly employed in a tea room in the basement of the builld- ing, who said she used to serve jluncheon in Wallace's ap: ‘tment. Fully a dozen times, she said, she had seen Mrs .Stokes in the “apartment, always lightly clad. But she had Jonly scen Wallace there with hor on }one or two occasions. At that time, did know Mrs, Helen,” having heard Wallace call her that. Howevar, she was sure the woman she saw there wan the Mrs, Stokes now sitting at she Stokes save as * not the counsel table, * SAW HER OFTEN IN WALLACE’S ROOM. Agricola Byers, a colored girl who employed in a tea room con- ducted by Daisy Dunn at No. 13 Rast R5th Street in 1917-1918, was was the | next witness, Q Where did you see at No. 13 East 35th S the apartment of Mr bodroom. Q When was this? mas lime in 1917 Q Wow many times did you see her there? A. At least a dozen times | was carrying meals to the apartment rom the tea room Mrs. Stokes eet? A. In Wallace, in the A Near Chriet- At what times did you take n? A. At various times be ny ck in the warning until n the afternoon Q Who was in te room? A, Mrs Q Any one else? A Yos once or (Conthived on Second Page.) kw REAL. hak Ware Dujirver yor hy ON ele 4 on tor bageame Waner rwkup i” iI iryele tee vallane lane vere teh te BABY GUY TILMAN HALTS ATTEMPT 10 CALL OFF LAWSUIT pave ceeeaay Guardian Insists That Marital Troubles of Parents Must Not Menace Inheritance. DAUGHTER Is NEUTRAL. Only Member of Family Who Has Not Taken Sides-—Re- port of Peace Denied. John EB. Mack, appotnted guardinn ad litem to protect the rights of Guy Stillman, infant, in the matrimonial squabble between James A. Stillman, President of the National City Bank and Mrs. Siiliman, Intends to inter- vene actively and persistently in the reported settlement of the pending divorce action. Mr. Mack insists that the motives which may have led to a pastpona- ment of the case in New York, with i the possibility of ita transfer to an- other and more mmote jurisdiction, peas é divorces are leas liable to be glare af publicity, | tee not yet taken the present and | future situation of the baby into eon- jsideration and, as guardian, he in- tends.to insist that they da, It became known to-day that Mr. | Mack will have the support morally, at least, of James Stillman, the sev- ennteen-year-old son of the couple, who has taken issue openly with hin father since he learned of the injec tion Into the case of the changes concerning Ferdinand Reaifvais, who been his outing companion /for has “Tt seamed a long time be- | Counsel for His is Wife Suggests} years, and between whom and him- self there is strong mutunl esteem. He is reported to resent angrily tbe |tmputations that Guy Stillman is not * of Mrs. Stillman his full brother. Miss Anne Stillman, the nineteen-year-old daughter. while she hag not taken sides botween her parents, Is known to believe that her father bas been deceived and badly advised in the matter of the suit. and to have urged a reconciliation. Tt was learned to-day from friends that ashe engaged passage on the Olympic early summer intending to get away from| the distressing situation in the houso- hold. The first summons and were served on her bofore the Olympic left the pier, After consulting with friends who went o see her off, she, determined not to interrupt her journey, but to carry on negotiations with her lawyers and through friends by cable, She returned in November. In January she moved from the Park Avenue home, which she had re- opened, to a Fifth Avenue hotel. MYSTERIOUS WOMAN LEAVES ON MRS. STILLMAN’S ARRIVAL. Within a few hours she !earned that hor appearance in the hotel had cre- ated a commotion there and had cansed the precipitate doparture of a (Continued on Second Page.) HIS TAX4 CENTS; INSISTS ON PAYING IN INSTALMENTS Pays Three Cents for a One- Cent Money Order to Go With Income Return. AUGUSTA, Gu., March 16 TAXPAYER whose total tax on his vight to pay in four instalments and who bought o he paid three cents, was revealed here to-day ‘The taxpayer, who tall, lank farm- address as Lin or. gave his but whove name wa not divulged, personally subsiitted his return to the puty collector of internal revenue and presented his one-cout moncy order, last | com- | plaint in her busband's divorce «uit! ALLTES DEMAND $238,000,000 FROM GERMANY BEFORE MARCH 23; » TRACTION FIGHT IN SENATE: MAY BE DEPOSIT.D IN BANK HERE’ DUGGAN, REPUBLIGAN POM Also Allow Until April 1 to Submit Proposal to Pay Otherwise Than in Cash Balance of the 20,000,000,000 Marks. i} | (By the Assoc lated Press.) | PARIS, March 16 Ht; Allied Reparations Connntssion, in its note to Germany, de- T manding fulfillment of Article 236 of the Peace Treaty, noti- tied the German Government it must pay one billion gold tTarks before March 23, it was announced to-day, The money must be deposited in the Bank of France, Bank of Bngland or the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States, Germany was told. | The commission notified the German Government first to pay be tween now and May 1, 1921, the balance of the twenty billion gold marks, and, second, that the first payment of the billion gold marke | ordered would apply on twelve billions remaining due of the original som. Five Senators From City Line Up for Governor’s Measure Taking Home Rule From Municipality—Battle Will Be Fought to Finish Despite Bad Outlook. By Joseph 8. Jordan The Commission gave Germany until April 1 to submit a proposal y cece Lo (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) to pay the balance of the 20,000,000,000 marks otherwise than in cash. | ; : ALBANY, 9 6.—U vided, heart Germany may submit a plan for a foreign loan by April, the pro | NYi Mates 1SrTinewenly) diyiied. © bul eR: Sere ceeds of which shall be payable to the Commissior | minority striving valiantly against Jong odds, the traction bill armies The Commission announced that Germany had virtuully refused |lined up on the Senate battlefield to-day for the final fight on Gov to pay the balance, aaserting the 20,000,000,000 marks had been fully Miller’s subway programme. paid. ‘The galleries were filled to watch the fray and on the side lines om LONDON, March 16.—(Associated Press).—The House of Com- | tne floor were many distinguished officials, including Mayor Hylan. mons, with the consent of the Government, to-day decided that the Senator Duggan of New York, who all along has been one of the German reparations bill, providing for a levy of fifty per cent. On | champions of the opposition to the plan to wrest the control and operation the purchase price of Importer! German goods, sball not come into | 4 3209,000,000 of transit linea from the people of New York, began the effect unll March 31. ‘ |dobate om the bill by moving to havo it recommitted and ane enacting The measure passed its second reading in the Commons on Mou: .) siagdeMiitricken out. day last COBLENZ, March 16 (Assoclated Preas).—Principles to be fol- lowed in collecting customs in the new tariff zone ostablished east of, the Rhine by Entente forces have been outlined ina report sent to the Allies by the Rhineland Commission. The report also vutlines the zone, which would begin at Mulheim and ruo along the line to the ex treme outposts of the newly oocupiod territery and of the bridgeheads | established by the Entente, Gen. Allen, Commander of American forees bere, ra participated unofficially in discussion of questions relative to the tariff and the TRANSPORT. HTN [$100,000 000 LOAN Senator Meyer who, tt will be reculled, fuiled to have bimmelf re- corded vither way at the midnight couferen but who revealed himself yesterday as one of the New Yorkers who favor the overthrow of Home why he didn't have Mayor Hylan called, as Comptroller Wendell was called yesterday, when the appropriation teavure came yp, to explain the bill, Senator Walker squelched the Seuator by reminding him that the Comp- troller was called under the provision of legisiative law which had to do with appropriations alone. ~———@® senator Duggan then ¢ectared & BRITISH TRADE PACT |Deginning debate that the Traction | Bill wus the most vicious pees of WITH SOVIET SIGNED "issn or neon It » legiaiation that ip the optmion ‘uf many does not tend to bring about Both Sides Made Materitl Couces-|the rignt kind of spirit beoween New sions Before Agreement Is York City and other communtties,” Reg shed. jbe sd "There has been a growing eached. feeling tu New York against the tn- , LONDON, March 16--The trade tringement on Home Rule by man- ugreement between Great Britain and | Soviet Russia was signed this morn- It is essentially the eame as the datory legivlation'and I feel that New York Js right in protesting.” | ‘The measure which would rob New York City of contro! over its sub- ways, sequester its $800,000,000 tn- vested In them and deprive tt of all power over the traction lines has the support of five of the eleven Repub- ican Senators from Greater New York, ‘These re Senators HOUSING PLANNED a Movement Backed by Nathan} Hirsch, Dr. Copeland, Gom- Rammed Her. | » pers and Lahor. ing. draft taken Krassin, Soviet Minister of Trade and | ——ONWAYTOPORT Madawaska Is Saved by Bulk- | heads After Invincible to Moscow by Leonid) Commerce, in January, the moat im- portant terms of which follow: | Rach party agrees to refrain from) men Sea | ————— |hoatite action or propaganda outalde| Schuvier M. Meyer, No. 20 Mxchemes The United states army transport) 4 pian far redinf of the housing sit- Ana other: towel Place, New York City; Witiam T. | its borders aguinst the others lit’ sinneon of No. $23 Sixth Street, Madawska and the Shipping Board | nation wan announcod to-day bY) tions leaweeiee. George M. Kelschmann of steantahip Invincible, which ocoflided (Nathan Hirsch, former chairman or | Sea not to impose any|No. 250 Eidert Street, Brooklyn; C, last night in a dense fog twenty | yraeor Tylan'n Housing Committee, | asnonaaa inst the other| 2thest Smith of Ne. 46 Brownell miles northeast of Atlantic City, are form of OC] je age Street, Stapletun, 8. L, and Maxwell ana reault of conferances he has held | op any discriminations against trade | with Samuel Gompors, Health Com-| not imposed on other foreign coun- A bulletin from the captain of the | missioner Copnland and tahor teadors | tries. Maduwaskn At. 1120. o'elook this |TOPPesAnting 780,000 citizens of Great-| Ships in esuch other's hurbors shall morning said tho venenla were 37|¢% Now York. Briefly, the plan calla! receive the treatment usually ac- {miles south of Scotland Light ana| fr ® loan of $100,000.00 from the| corded foreign merchant ships by ltraveiling through a beavy fog. ‘The | Stata for home tullding purposes, — | commercial nations. steamer’s former speed of eight knota| [® explaining Wa plan. Mr. Hirsch | The agreement provides for the has been reduced and, they are now | Wished it emphasized that there was] clearance of mines from the Baltic both proceeding to New York under their own steam. Harris, Brooklyn, The Republican snembvers of the Senate who stuck by New York City are, first, Charles C, Lockwood, of No. 964 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, who made the big fight for The Evening World for the reat iIaws and who also made the fight for the increase im teachers’ salaries, First, last and all expeciag in port about 6 o'clock tinin |B politics of any sort behind the | and the approaches to Russia and the | the time senator Lockwood bas been evenings ment [exchange of information resurding | opposed to the Miller Traction Dill, The Madawaska was stenck near the I have been informed.” he suid, | nines. and will make a‘ fight aguinst the |bow and damaged below the water | certaln politicians, quick to see, A renowal of telegraphic and postal! measure on the floor of the Senate line, Her No. 1 bold filled rapidly | #olitical capttal in this plan, are) facilities, including parcels post, will | to-day, but the bulkheads of No. 2 held, Ag] *eheming to une it to further the in- | be arranged. OTHER OE£FENOERS OF CITY the Invincible stood by, playing hor |1erest# of their candidate at the pri-| With regard to the selzure of Rus- AGAINST PARTY, nearchlights on the stricken trags- | maries and io the Mayoralty election | sian gold exported from Ruswia a3) ane oiner members of the we port, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett of the |i the fail. Rut that the record may payment for imports, the British}, payed against the bil and out Madawaskn called lis c to|be kept clear, 1 wish to stafe that) Government does not conceds the| aq out for home rule are Senator emergency stations, and the passen- |neither 1, Mr Gompers, the labor rep. | Soviet claim that such gold should) wiiiam Duggan of No. 61 East 1ilst soldiers (rom | rosentatives or other Canals Zone, | gers, including twelve San Francisco and t were instructed to don life preservers. prominent citi zens who have volunteered to join in “ i thin movement, any part what When it was seen there was no| v soever | thi Th immediate danger It was decided not | "Over |p This bd to transfer any of tho paasongera | Originated to henefit the citizens as a be regarded as immune from seizure to pay British claims, ‘The agree- ment leaves this as a matter to be settled by ordinary court procedure, In the agreement the Soviet Gov- ' Street, John L. Karte of No. 335 Olm- stead Place, Glendale, Queens County; Ward V. Tolbert of No. 90 Pineburst Avenue, New York City, and Abram L. Katlin of No. 175 Hewes Street, have plot plan w Capt. Bartlett started to head for|whole and I shall aid in making it ernment is termed the “Government! Brooklyn. port, Bue anesed: i epee a yr jOperative only when fully convines f the Russian Socialist Federal) Senator Maxwel 8. Harris of No. or scar the engine room that on eg, [that those behind it are acting solely | Soviet Republic.” 1179 5ist Street, Brooklyn, is another plosion was ferred The fires were | in the interests of the pubtic -- of the Republicans from Greater New drown until the pumps got rid of th Mr Hirech said he lad been jo. York who is counted upon to slide Way: AO. “eminora cy: ‘reyelhe formed that Jegisiation for a ; WOMAN PRISONER ESCAPES. over In favor of the bill when the ‘The Madawaska, on her way from | Diiiding loan could be panied aw a Wiees From Court Room at Petty|time comes. His vote would make Manila to be redelivered to the St emergency measure without amend. arceny Hearing. the thirty-three claimed by the G O, bing Board, h ¥-six passengers |anont to the State Canatituuion, He! Anna White, a prisoner unaargg P leaders, Harris has been dodging Poe sowitecday In batlant for Norvale, |advocates Ihe appointment of a non-|examination on a charge of petyAar- | vote Capt. Bartlett of the Madawaska in| ArLisan, non-polit! 4! commission | ceny in Women's Court to-day, escaped| Mr. Harris was once apparently the skipper who took Peary and Stef- | from the courtroom and fe at la the bitterest foe of the B. K, T, de- A genera) alarm hae ben sent out. ( anason on thelr Arctic expeditions, (Continued op Omewnd Page) nouncing the methods of the railroads. AEN NA et AME NEW YORK, LEADS IN ATTACK. Rule, created a diversion at the outset by asking Minority Leader Walker)