The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 1

| To-Night’s Weathor—FAIR. WALL STREET be. Covrrigtt, agar, by ‘The Press Publishing he New York World). HARDING IS READY TO TALK ON tilS U. S, of All Obligations in Its Enforcement. LEAGUE A_ TRIBUNAL. Covenant Separation Would Mean That Article X. Would Be Eliminated. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- Harding and Secretary of State Hughes are proceeding cautiously in matters of forcign policy, the attitude of the new Administration has been made ficently clear to enable the writer to outline some of the main points in the conversations which © been begun suf- of negotiations after Rene Viviani, former Premier of France, has visited the United States. President Harding has indicatod’tc | Mts Cabinet, as well as to those fable FAVORS ENFORCEMENT CLAUS- ES FREE FROM LEAGUE. TREATY PLANS Seems to Favor Elimination by | ning Worl WASHINGTON, March 18 (Copy-| right, ). — Although President with foreign governments and which | Probably will reach the definite stage /REICHSTAG TOLD | IT’S TIME TO aeoAk KAISER OVERBOA Bernstein Believes Better Terms of Peace Could Be Made if It Were Done. BBRLIN, March 18 OSSING the former Kaiser | overbourd as a Jonah was openly proposed in the Rejchstag to-day by Deputy Bernstein. Bernstein recommended that Germany recognize the Ka war guilt in the hope that “th | world will give us lighter terms. | The pan-Germans created a great | disturbance denvuncing the pro- | posal in the ‘Our foreign ‘8 Reichstag Chamber, t poltey can accused of two main mistake Bernstein declared. rst, we have not recognized at most of the world and most of our people believe—the guilt of the Kaiser, “The second ié that England is permitted to bind herself to France's policy wherein the Ger- man people are held responsible for the Government's guilt.” DECLINE IN INCOME TAXES PLACED AT 000 when the last $00,000,000 and excess profits tax will total about | instal- | Biter ar icsihea ‘ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1921. Post Offic STILLMAN GIRL “FRIENGS” AID HIS W Entered as Second-Clans Matter w Yorks N. ‘Two Views ot Stage Girl Who Figures NNT Bt GIRL 9 In Banker James A. Stillman Revelations ~ PAPA, SAYS COURT, ‘BUT HE CAN BE Sw {Surrogate Rules That Curtis, Age 67, Shall Not Adopt Miss Mary Lois Fox, Age 29. | DERIDES HER Says If He Granted the Re- quest “Old Roues” Would Come Around for Ruling. | REASONS. Surrogate John P. Cohalan to-day peremptorily denied the sixty-seven- year-old bachelor Herbert N. Curtis, a retired business man, of No. 47 East Tith Street, the pleasure of be-| | ing the daddy by adoption of twenty-| | nine-year-old Miss Mary Lois Fox, deseribed petition as a “professional entertain- | elocutionist. | “Wait until you get married. Then and Tl as your who was in Mr. Curtis's er, singer and bring your husband around ltet you adopt this old man son if you desire,” the Surrogate sald | sat caustically to Miss Fox as she in the witness chair a Mr, Curtis, a stately and vigorous | F AS ers’ ike, siness r r iss ox upon the Llahiesny reg Ad laa Admin | Buyers’ Strike, Business De-| ola man, preceeded Miss Iox upen th g ; ' PSsi j ™ t ¢ © tol the Court that b r munication, that he is open-minded} pression and Wage Cuts, — | ta He told pei soar and ready to give serious considera ae cate Miss Fox six years ago, when. be tion to any plan for international co- Reason Assigned. Went to Weetortake lessons tdmicdern operation either including or exclud- et dancing, He said be had found her ing the present League of Nation’ WASHINGTON, March 18.—The competent and b a arietehtin but in harmony with the general) buy strike, the nation-wide b her for two years policies and traditions of the United} ness depression and reduced earnings na pupil in dancing he became L jeoeed of workers and professional men In Ob) HESTatATy The UNE ‘Tentatively, the Harding Admints~ mim : “ : woman and aided her in exploiting 92 ‘ 8 fi e 4 , _ tration seems to favor the idea of a will cost the mment ap. cniacixinmant BOs ties neste. folk eeparation of a covenant from the| proxima $1,000,000.000 in reduced songs, &c,, before the public. | Treaty of Versailles, not necessarily| !ax payments this year, it was Indi-|" sey Curtis prayed the Court for per- | by the drafting of a new treaty or a cated to-day in early reports to the |, to adopt the young woman new association of nations, but by T sury from the first | ment of ‘ of his high recurd eliminating so far as the United} the Income and ex Profits tax) 1g because she would be a comfor Btates is concerned al! obligation to| payment , to him inchia Aeclining ye enforce the Treaty of Versailles The reports indicate that the otal], pscusirenban be collections this year from income adopt this young won rogate inquired, with Impatience FLOR ENCE \ ui HARRY S. BLACK CASE) IN MIAMI D' “1ISSED Had Been C. Arrested $s of Liquor in His for Having 60} ‘fhe United States, indeed, is anx-) c neo fous to see the enforcement clauses|ment is pald Dec. 15. Last year the) awe, you won't do it with the “ ( four instalments yielded approxi-| RANE ths (ulict cankwel of the peace treaty kept free rom | w lof tits Cou the League or association of nations. mately. $8,500,000,000 hotly, “I never heard United States ¢ As one member of the Harding Cab-| Paymentsof the income and excoas ntery. It's too startling! It's a} missioner Graham, when the capitit a | profits tax this month probably will Jy on all the liws of society and brought before him ar- | inet expreased it to the writer, the , parody on a : ist was brows ideal situation would be one in which | 0 Tun higher than $700,000.00. Im) common decency. If I were to be a! raignment the League of Nations had no more| March last year the total was $918-|narty to such an adoption, we would| Mr Kk had bi wet 1 n direct connection with the Treaty of | 580.000 ; |have a lot of uld roues com here}py the State and Federal authoritic Versailles than any treaty which} The yield sm practically all) wanting to adopt young g land charged with violat the Pro- | may bo made between the United | Surces hata falling off. The) pheodor Magurden of laston, | hibition Laws Beis and'Ching or Japan, customs yield probably will not Fa aounael tor Curt SE HeT Ree nauseam dkeninead ana) He ene | more than $00,000,000 this year, if it|< er pucwornients is eretens (cami In other words, wague would is Surrogate tp commen. private car ord aa tribunalt nich appeal could |/TUNA that, according to J. 8. McCoys | wyouy Honor era imap he eave pwrter toatified thd mid Lat eam ry actuary Last year it) wi , he as Roesch | be made in the event that disputes of piyetate itd Ast year I was!) cublicity in this matter, can 1 placed the lquor wed seal udicial ¢ cter arose | P00 Miss Fox to the witness stand to ex-| the wledge or consent car @ political or jud Rhee er mre Raven dace acts raning eeeorns Mm Hor | kn ex would stund on an equa \srrine finds tenner ue ney rapidly jae “The th he wi oun 5 | and would have complete Itberty of PUN |? sera pen aie eae thereupon assured the | Hugi Ma ut. Gr : % of the floating deby|Court that Mr. Cur 20k & purely | where ate one svonenued on: Deen PSE e mature thi In addition the| Platonic interest in her. His attitude | made inn n = spring of 1923 w to maturity |toward her hus been, she sald, that of |Court 1 Mondal. Bila | ONLY 131 SALOONS ipproximately $ 100 worth of |* fath Sete shortly to|ynder bond in that va vietory notes and war savings secu be marr wan o give him << OUT OF 561 CLOSED }y\\'° the legal position of father to ber and| TRAIN HALTED BY CLOTH.| paaeen iad Molion |s believed certain to|have him live with her and her hus- cava! ie Bal Dry League Canvass Shows Liitle | recommend abolition of fhe excess | band. rh Express. +” Effect of Prohibition in 1st, 2d tux, Secretary Houston made! The Surrc ; — ; | . similar recommendation just before \ and 3d Avenue rativing n po The Anti-Saloon' 1 has 2 " gompleted what it calla a ‘tkuluon-to-' BANDIT FIGHTS. 50 POLICE. | n 1 Jou saloon canvass” jn Mirst Avenue, sve Semen £6) : end Avenue und Third Aven Man- Vietol in Hand, Holds Them) i pad hattan, to find how many 4 hs have of, bat » Is Shot Down, b a | heen closed by Brolibitic Phere QHICAGO, March 18. Facing more 65 STANDEES COST Ne moa throu ‘ 81 swloona on these tires aveniies chan titty policemen, a bandit with a MOVIE HOUSE 25c ‘""" pan iean wire: picid ‘ hon the Prohibition law went 10 iiytot in exch hand to-day was shor | = efect rhe had kept up a . - i i m until his ammunition | Owner Fined $10 for Fire La ie lw + Violations Had Recvive abt ' Mix, ts in a erithowi $9.75 in Admission: pest ow Hamburg New York th ale ritering at) stand ir mo! vi t p Satan NaN. Ala raday, atarted | 1 th Mux Wax trois Mah . ' vim, The tan ape ree day by Ju Y ata Y for home brews See ae et Bday by ud ss ; . Men's, Bulle & Top Cow w and t bandit final eri ns sel t lator : Nia sae i " iM 1 1 are f bot ] — uch month from New ¥ nina WORLD THAY Mareu 4 to appear witwo f Hamburg s ati (ort : wer a chetko of having & locked @x'¢/Routhainpion and ¢ The mat ina’ Vania AS UgtUnedian ‘Taira Nocaa liter gue de cee arg a peseae ant Arete rio, see oh elem GB uamale ea a a Be) Eat sraes 2 nae Ly v wus, comver Barclay | Aart. Bowery. A Boe of $50 was Imposed | May 3. LARS. HANION WRITES SHE WILL START LIFE ANEW Acquitted ot Killing Millionaire Oil Man and Political Leader, Jake LL. Hamon bros (ut sta i termination y thi an err un bar It has 1. i t rt t fold if tb 1 AW 1 wt . ' t 1 I ~~ Stayer of Church Orennixt Cuiekty Hadieted “RUM HOUNDS” PUT IN SPECIAL CELL WITH LIVE SNAKES hey Awake Panic Stricken and ye to Abstain Is Thrust Before Pledg Them. stig World) » March 1, ‘orm the “hooch MOGs Rocks, a nearby borough, upon whom ntences are hav- Chief of Police jas iinported six ulihead snakes expects to bring” on of the hard- nix lan con- ror when a drunk is Brought In he is ven a berth with the snakes When he awakens from his eleep ind finda himself among them h variably panic , strick However, he can obtain hls 1 only by vigning a pledge ind promising reform The snukes are fed on mice N. Y. JEWELRY MAN ROBBED OF $44,000 Salesman for Dattlebaum & Fried Victim of He Thieves in Pittsburgh. World 18 Jewelry | ! | | | MMR. STILLMAN IS IDENTIFIED AS FRIEND OF STAGE BEAU NAMED IN DIVORCE SUM Friendly “Tips” Come From All Quarters to Aid Wife of Banker in Her “Defensive Action”—Two Chauffeurs Furnish {mportant In- formation as to Vaudeville Actress ‘n impressive showing of evidence in elaboration of the “affirma- tive defense” which Mrs. Anne U, Stillman is using to combat the divoree {suit uf James A, Stillman, President of the National City Bank, has R accumulated within a few days and has /been prepared in affidavit form by her attorneys. Some of these affidavits may become WOULD PUNISH GUILTY PERSONS IN DIVORCE CASES public at a hearing on the alimony and counsel fee of petition set down by Justice yMormn@iivr “to-day for argu gnc lay, at che re- quest of John F, Brennan tor Mra Stillman and a Mr. Collins, represent. ing the banker. ‘They said that as far ay they knew there would be no ap- | pearance on the minor motioa set down tentatively for to-morrow. District Attorney Lewis Protests Against Measure That Would Give Them Immunity. FERN 3 to divorce sean- daly in high society was Justice Morschauser’ in fixing next made in a letter to-day sent | Wednesday remarked: “I had a tele- by District Attorney Harry E, | phone message last night from the Lewis of Kings Colnty to Albany, |lawyers in this matter, and I told In opposition to the bill proposing criminal prosecution of them 1 would rather have the matter heard in open court." Both Mrs, Stillman and her attorneys Hilly parties in, di ce proceed as ; have been surprised by the eagerness r Awis suid | “I am wmalterably opposed to {lf Men and women of supposedly gay the proposed amendment, While {®°d irresponsible lives to ald Mra, stile it le true that there have been few |'™t. “Tips” and positive information convictions under this section, | be84n to be thrust upon them as so6m due to the feeling that the pers | !t became public that Mr. Stites sonal conduct of individuals, so | 24d, two years after the birth oft@ long as it does not offend the Jehild to his wife, named a Freneht public, should not be the subject |C@nudian guide as the facher of the of Stute regulation, it seems that | 2! and the wrecker of his home, at that time, especially when the These came from persons who eal public press is filed with sicken- {Hey knew the banker himself to have ing uccounts of domestic infidelity | en eAgaged In a more or less eentt> of persons claiming high positions |™Mental adventure with almost in soetety, these sections of the act plot, covering almost the <a Imanial laws Wisere coal! vate time ax that with which his ace “One or two convictions with |" ought to besmirch bis wife her bat \ One of tus! first to appear wae young won.n with a wide acquaings penitentiary sentences would have a sulutary effect upon these people. Hola inal heeds | DRO reat algerie nies arin high financiers, includit F No. 1s John} he will take uction against any | Mf Stillman und others not well leg ut the| party ina divorce sult who ad. | kROWM 44 custodians and directors Weiser | large She had known Mig mney swtion given] a Biitonay 9 aid, before he decanbh ae Te emabout acquainted with the appealingly beads wut’? vesee [COAL PRICES DROP ii sung girl of the cater Sal f tila Sewate 15-25 CENTS A TON | vascevie ce who was variously J und the Jewelry known as Florence Leeds and Flo Big Dealers Here Announce Re-| ence La ductions to “Little Fellow” ‘They were oll treads abe alee a theatrical young woman who wai tor Home Use. jKnown among them as “Mr, Stile Th a bi to-day t man's end” but whose friendship ponition etall ul) was 1 by them to be of rere would be s\rant-and-good-night> Nl pr variet This girl mare A) at th 1 and ness man, wi ule 1 ant ale n t banker's finaay mt be a ' ente ent but gave : \ 1 x i} ne in which she is now . ; ; hursges ald to t ily except for fear she 7 : fows| all reduced ; ‘ jagged into the Stillmam ; prices 15 t onta a n but t Mr. Stillman's frien t ad wile te 1, this informant said, she tie aks jyimake in d t the red ed all the young women of hey ‘i i] int 1 feed 1 nee fo Mr &$ Iman, Si SHE'S "FOR THE WIFE” SHE Dg. Farrell & 8 d t CLARES. ss ny red -# He w pleasant to all of a FIGHTS IN BELFAST |. Broken and egg, from $13.40 t0 fyi sho suid. “And then wo \ s of him and nei ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY "Stove and nut. from $1375 10 i devoting nueeae $13 Win, Ot course we fels \ I Poa, from $11.50 to $10.7 Med it an Yodid h \ Buckwheat, from $8.10 and $6.10 A it nobody in our érowal to $7.50 and $5.50 + mane ‘ \ : J it ot jousy. Bik : when I 1 what iman te 1 } vil through court aff ; The W nijeny. ony 1 wut his own wife and the Bin * bibeacite | yother of his childten—I'a for the ‘ r us ail Gomestic | wif HI with Ubelr batons j Others sought by (my eatigntore