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To-Night’s Woather—FAIR, WARMER. WALL STREET EDITION VOL. LXI. - STILLMAN COUNSEL NAMES GUIDE IN SU | Cirenl. lom Books Open to Al »| NO. 21,695—DAILY. right, 1921, by The Press Pubtlohing Cov ee! (the Now York World) NEW ‘YORK, WEDNESDAY, ‘MARCH 23, ibe Entered 0» Second-Cinss Matter Fost Otfies, New York, N. ¥. 8 = — SSEMBLY HALTS ACTION FOR N.Y. CITY INQUIRY BY ~~ RECOMMITTING WELLS BILL: Author Prevents sits Hight on Mea- (No REAL WHISKEY | IN 234 SAMPLES OF SEIZED HOOCH | } sure by Sending It Back | to Comntittee. MAY NOT BE REVIVED. Procedure Follows ‘*White- yash” Charge in Vote Trad- ing for Traction Bill. | By Joseph s. Jordan: { (8taff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March 23.—Following the statement yesterday by Assem blyman James T. Carroll of Brooklyn that the ten votes of Kings County had traction m@usure been a whitewash of the New for the traded for City Administration investiga- tion under Burlingame-Wels Bill, and the queshing of the “indict- Comptroller} Yor the former James Wendell, the Wells Bitl, which came up in the Assembly this morn- ing, was recommended to the Com- mittee on Cities. It is openly asserted that the bill will n in committee until the session ends. The Burlingame bill, its companion, which has been| passed in the Senate, also reposes in the same committee, Both bills call for a commission of twenty-three members for a revision of the char- ter of Greater New York, incidental 10 which there must be an investiga- tion of the various city departments. Just before the Wells measure eatae up for advancement to-day Jake Livingston, the Brooklyn boss, who had in line the ten Kings County traction bill voters, had a talk with Syeaker Machold in the office of the latter outside the Assembly chamber. hen Mr. Carroll made his an- founcement yesterday pending the tiebate on the traction bill that @ tumor had ceached him that the New York City ments against rer Voted solid for traction, this morning for final passage. fguinst an attempt to strike out the when jt came up, but the author frus- {rated any action of the kind by mov- z its recommittal, Wells had been iking with Mr, Livingston and iushed into the chamber just long {nough te put his motion, which was granted, and then returned to talk to My. Livingston. Senator Burlingame, when told of ine action of Wells, said that {t would lot affect the standing of his mensure (Continued on Twelfth Page.) A World Advertisement Brings Over 1,000 Replies | From I Maine to Tennessee j SELCHOW & RIGHTER Co. ' Games, Home Amusements, ! Toys and Novelties, ' 620 Broadway, New York, March 19, 1921, \avertising Dept, New York World, | New York, N. ¥. Gentlemen: "Last ‘Sunday, Mareh \3, T inserted an advertisement in | sour paper for ® manager for my Urapefruit, Grove in the Isle of fy and the following is the re- 1a 714 letters (and still coming), covering @ terri! ny from Maine to ‘emMessce; more than 100 telephony e Fines Name Your Poison! Alcohol, Fusel Will Discuss Floating Oil and Ether in All Loan Abroad. of Them. Se OVERNMENT chemiue PARIS, March 23 (United Press). G stated to-day that | Additional ponalties to be inflicted analyses just completed of samples of alleged whis in 234 seizures following for illegal that not one was real whiskey hooch, was mostly use of alcohol as a ‘base, for the bead, ether for aroma and sugar The sald, burnt transportation prov and coloring matter. H.-S, DROPS L1Q:'92 CASES BEGUN HERE ‘BY BOSTON RAIDERS | Defective dene Assistant United States Attornoy Reynolds announced to-day the drop- Ping from the calendar of the last of the Volstead of acquitted, the info tifled” as raids, The establishments affected by the procedure’ included * Strand Rouge, the Opera Cure and Guffanti's Substantial quantities of found three of the raided places, tions for having liquor illegally may come out of these seizures. | Supervising and authorized the Hotel, the restaurant. liquor were Former Chapin Prohib tion planned idence Prevented Convictions on 100 Warrants —“Invasion” Cost $30,000. act prosecutions charging al sales of liquor recent invasion of this city by a bard agents: from More than 100 search warrants wers served in the raids and more than 150 prisoners taken. The first two men put on trial were One case was discontin- investigation was to be]ued by the Government whitewashed if the ten Brooklyn men| Reynolds learned the agent making the Wells] the charges had a record in Boston till had already been advanced te] which disqualified him as a witness, third reading and was due to come up| Another was d.scontinued becauss ation proved defective, Everything was ready for a fight} one instance the Boston agent “iden- a bartender a man w. pnacting clause of the Wells measure| Was in the Tombs at the time of the raids, bringing the here for from two to three weeks ; x ana eries now in eperation, according to The cost of the operation was es- | TBE? iY Lhe iy Mi alee Oe ale Wayne B, Wheeler, General Counsel theated at more than $30,000. patioesk Tae Germany Goa of the Anti-Saloon League, Wheeler A virtually a Ht ith pee © PY declared that few of these wa « nedichad team Hr: this 1,000,000,000 marks, which the reed. months was predicted to-day at the headquarters League, No. 906 Broadway, as the ré-| sult of the passage by the Assembly last night of the State enforcement ‘Jail Threat for Flatbush Flirte Two Flatbush youths were ffhed eaoh to-day by Masistrate Geismar in the Flatbush Court in Brooklyn for dis- orderly conduct tn loitering around the Kingston Ayenue Contagious Diseases Hi was pital. ting hospital gone, nineteen, No. dat It of Samuel ot No. 41 Unooln. Road, | the open sale of hooch al with the girl inmate r The youths wre Ganuel Lan aco, Lincoln Fload. neat Shs eala te cateh os tring with ' Boston detectives perts Find Deficit She taken. arrests Commission her the coemists made by the | Their character was not divulged! fusel oil | here. caramel ‘for PARIS, Press).—Germany, Mareh = 23 day fuses to pay the gold due on balance of May 1. that the than paid. count, but many to pay the first of May. based on the it is establis' Boston, ready after Mr.| reply, In|ornments, The = 3 Marlborough | the Moulin the in only two or Prosecu- marks to-day, Agent I. the Anti-Saloon authoress, “A Gamble young novel, sensation. You'll find wed they were Lan- ty-ene, of “Jail sentence Germany has available well us in foreign securities, stated. GERMANY HAS PAID. $6,000,000,000, SHE‘... | TELLS THE ALLIES Reply to Uttimatum Is Con- tention That Nothing Is Due May 1. ASKS JOINT COMMISSION. on the Germans were suggested to- | day by the Inter-Allied Reparations | The recommendations will be for- warded to Allied capitals to-morrow. | The Commission described the Ger- | man note received to-day as an “un- qualified refusal to pay.” (Associated in -her- reply to the recent ultimatum of the Allied Reparations Commission, 1,000,000,000 marks this date and disputes the Commission's figures showing a ,000,000,000 marks due It is maintained in the German note 20,000,000,000 marks which the Peace Treaty provided should be handedwover by May 1 has been more The note asks that a joint commis- sion of experts fix the value of the German deliveries on reparation ac- {t declares that event it would be impossible for Ger- 2,000,000,000 marks by ‘The note concludes as follows: “If, after the experts have conferred, hed that there is a deficit in the payments by Germany, she is to besin negotiations with the Reparations Commission regarding the floating of a loan abroad.” The Reparations Commission met this morning to consider the German which was transmitted from Berlin last night. ‘The Germans’ fail- ure to pay is deemed a violation of the Treaty of Versailles which the com- mission will report to the Allied Gov- Allies will then deter- mine what measures shall be taken. is commented here German experts already have been heard by the Commission before fix- ing the valuation of the German de- liveries credited as payments against 20,000,000,000 marks, uation therefore was considered final, since the treaty gives the Commis- sion sole jurisdiction in the matter. The German reply does not answer directly thd Commission's demand for a first payment of 1,000,000,000 (This point, however, | is covered on the face of things by| Germany's contention of overpayment | of the entire amount due*by May 1.)/ that This val- Reparations Commission knows that in gold, it whose first in Beaut which appeared recently in The Evening World, caused such a “THE LOVE PETAL” oven better. Don't fail to begin it MONDAY, MARCH 28, IN THE EVENING WORLD in any the ‘HARDING KEEPS Ig covuae Gn OF e Bible. Also Is on President’s Table in the White House. WASHINGTON, HA March 23. RESIDENT R XING has had an old photograph of hig mother reframed and now keeps it on his desk at the White A copy of the Bibl n_his desk also, GALLONS OF BEER A MONTH IF YOUR - DOCTOR SO ORDERS | | | [= | | and One-Third: Pints, Only, Per Day. MAY SELL IN TEN STATES. |But New Rule by Revenue Bureau Is Yet to Be . Approved: to- ' WASHINGTON, March 23,—Prin- cipal provisiong of the new regula- tions carrying into effect the ruling of former Attorney re- Genoral Palmer that manufacture and sale of beer as |medicine is not te |to-day. In brief they are: That a doctor may prescribe four and seven-eights gallons of beer for each ailing patient every thirty days. That a doctor must, find good and sufficient reason for prescribing beer; that he must not prescribe the maximum more often than every thirty days, but he is not limited as to the number of patients for whor he may prescribe. That manufacture of real beer can- not be carried on in the same plants used for manufacture of near beer— the kind containing less than one-hal¢ of one per cent. of alcohol. That breweries may sell only to wholesale druggists, who in turn sell to retail druggists who must have permits to deal in real beer, ' ‘The rule of 47-8 gallons a month to # patient, it is figured out, will give about a pint and a third a day to a sick man, The regulatfons as outlined were drawn under the direction of Inter- nal Revenue Commissioner William Williams, a Democratic appointee, crelary of the Treasury Mellon must approve them and it waa said he is reluctant to do so until they are reviewed by a Republican Inter- nal Revenue Commissioner, Presi. dent Harding has let it be known he will not hurry about appointing a commissioner, The new commissioner when he | takes office may approve the present tentative regulations or he may order new ones drawn. In either case the | operation may take some time, and then Mellon's approval must be ee- cured, All this probably will take a | month or more, There are about one hundred brew- ‘I were learned gage in the manufacture of re, because the cumbersome regu heavy taxes they will have to pay end the limited field in which thoy can operate will make brewing unprofit- as is Will Give to Sick Man One} LABOR ATTACKED OTHER ON DESK! BITTERLY IN SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE “Is Tearing Parties to Pieces,” He Says, “On Way to Téar- ing Society to Pieces.” “IS REALLY SOCIALIST.”| “Fighting to , Destro Every- thing Great Leaders Have Labored to Upbuild.” LONDON, (Associated Press). —A Social- ism was made by the Prime Minister | March 23 bitter attack on in a speech at a luncheon to-day of | “the new members of the ulition group,” the participants in the luncheon party were styled. "The military dangera which ‘united | the parties have: disappeared," sald! Mr. yd George, “but greater, ! more insidious, more permanent dan- gers still confront us. The great peril is the rise to power of a new as party with new purposes of the moat} Y. CITY INQUIRY BLOCKED AT ALBANY. | din de Villaine, repredenting the De- subyersive character. “It calls itself ‘Labor.’ {t is really Socialist. It is tearing the parties to pleves on its way to tearlng society to pieces. Those who are inclined to! agree with Mr, Asquith and Lord Bentinck that the Labor Party is a bogy should read the Socialist and Labor papers for a week. jocluliam is fighting to everything that the great and leaders of both parties, Unionist Liberal, have labored ‘for gen- erations to upbulld. Parliamentary institutions are as much menaced as private interests, and the rule of class organization ig to substi- tuted fdr them,” “Those still inclined to regurd the Labor Party as « bogy should look at the by-elections of 1920 und 1921. The addition of 4 per cent. would put the Socialists in the majority, and there is a margin of 15 to 20 per cent, who do not yote. “Suppose that the working up of grievances the coalition was de- feated and the Socialists won a m -| destroy prophets and be by jority, They would not seek to re-| move these grievances, but would root out the whole system of society.” ‘The Prime Minister asked those who realized the danger to close their| ranks. They must take all possible steps, he said, to Instruct the electors who must, at no distant date, decide he issue MAY PUMP COAL RIGHT INTO CITY FROM SCRANTON Fuel Carried Along in Strong Current of Water Which Runs Off in Grating at End. OAL can be pumped from Scranton, the heart of the Pennsylvania mine fields, through pneumatic pipes to New York, removing all danger of a coal famine in this city, the Board of Egtimate was told to-day by Reginald P. Bolton, an engineer He declared the plan is working | successfully in London. The coal | is propelled with a strong current of water, which passes through screens at the point of destination, jul. William H, Anderson, State able. ‘ | Superintendent of the league, was Even under the Palmer ruling, out of the city, but all-his subordi- | NAN ) Wheeler said, beer can be sold in only nates joined in declaring the Stute ANCIBELLE HALE ten Stat aine, Rhode Island. enforcement bill spells the end of Another story by this brilliant] Maryiand, Connecticut, Ohio, New York, California, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Lousiana, Other States have State Protibition laws which forbid beer manufacture, and pee; cannot be transported into thes States. Despite Wheeler's _ predictions numerous brewers have made in quiry concerning the new regulation and have indicated their intention make ee &e s00n as they ar. given the word by issuance of | ae leaving the coal clean and free from dust, . Mr. Bolton's testimony was heard at a public hearing given by Mayor Hylan on a plan to divert New York Central freight lines from the west side of Man- hattan ‘to the east #lde, waere they would be buried in subways, ‘The matter was referred to a committee consisting of the Cor- poration Counsel, tly Dock Com- missioner and the Commissioner of Plant and Structures, i eaibndaibecreatin: EGE WORLD TRAVEE, eer 79 a tang. {Word | young American republic, | which seems above suspicion document,” Delahaye, dispensable to maintain with the Unit- marked Senator Dominique Delahaye, causing murmurs from many benches. formation,” paid, and I await knowledge to whom. it has been paid.” ahaye, “Tr wilt | you a week henee, my dear colleague, and or 1" jsaid Jwes jever, Senator Brangier did not reply. Senator Gaudin De Vilaine resumed: have suggested wouki honor America infinitely esting for us than seeing from time |to flowers on the tomb of Marquis De Lafayette, That is, as I nid last year, an historical falsehood, for Marquis | Tt Lafayette, like Count De Rocham. ‘peau and #0 many ethers who crossed |the ago, were simply pawns on the royal chessboard.” FRENCH SENATOR INSISTS U. 8. OWES 37 BILLION FRANCS; Declares America Never Has Repaid Loan Made During the Revolution. STATEMENT. IS DENIED. “GentlewomanBanker Married Took _ as Her Lover an Indian Guide,” Counsel 7 ells CourtatWhite Plains —Alimony Allowance to Be Fixed on Monday When Papers in Suit — Hot Debate in Chamber When Assertion Is Repeated by Its Maker. PARIS, March 23 (Associated Press).—The question whether Amer- ica had ever repaid the advances’ to her, made by Louis XVI. of France during the Revolution, raised recently by a writer in the newspaper L'Belair, was brought up. in the Senate during Jast night's de- bate on the budget by Senator’ Gau- American partment of La Manche. “I said last year from this ros- trum,” the Senator declared, “t Loule XVI. in 1778, in the nathe of | the French Nation and to save the | jad loaned America 800,000,000 franc: Senator Gaudin de Villaine calcu- lated that at 3 per cent. this sum now would exceed $7,000,000,000 francs, or sufficient net only to pay what| France owes to America but also what France owes to England, “A Washington telegram, replying within the last twenty-four hours to the point of which you speak, gives the dates at which this debt was re- paid,” interrupted Senator Brangier “This debt never has been paid,§ exclaimed Senator Gaudin de Vil- juine, "The telegram in question gives the exact dates of the payments,” replied Senator Brangier. ‘I had, my dear colleague, the same thoughts | as you, and when I was in the United States I put the question to an American newspaper—the game ques- tion you have raised to-day, 1 was told that the United States had re- paid. 1 scarcely believed it, because the reply in a way was vakue and indefinite, while the telegram from Washington, to which I alluded, gives the dates and terms of the payments. It comes from a source “A telegram is not an historical/the interposed Senator Jules “I must ask pardon,” maid Senator Brangier, “but it would be dangerous for the good relations whien it is in- the ed States to open such a discuswion if] U: really this debt has been paid.” ven! “That telegram is 4 canard,” re-|the “Until there is more complete in- said Senator Gaudin de Villaine, “I assert that it has not been Turning to Senator Dominique Del- Senator Erangier exclaimed: make an appointment with we will see who is rigtt, you “You put your faith in a telegram,” Delahaye ‘To this, how- bury “A course by America such as I and would be more inter- oar, time pilgrimages come to place Mr, tor, ocean @ century and a quarter son the Requests Surrender of Men Who WASHINGTON, United States has called on the Ger- man Government to surrender Frank Zimmer and Cart Neuf, two Amerl- cans, imprisoned for the attempted capture of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy Philadelphia draft dodger, it was learned to-day. The surrender has been asked in representations made to the Germin Governmen? partment ard also through Major Gen, Henry “ Germany. The Harding Administration te un- derstood to be determined to secure whether Bergdoll, himself, will be de- manded is not yet known, lat i $500 BOOZE FINE ON HARRY S. BLACK New Yorker Found Guilty of Vio- MIAMI, Black, New York mutfti-miliionaire, was fined $500 to-day by. Mayor Hugh | ston of Cocoanut Grove, a sub- tendre to the charge of violating the Cocoanut Grove liquor ordinance. Mr. Binck wné arrested folowing a raid on Friday, of his private railroad liquor were found. A raid later on a quantity of whiskey. Black's two servants, Handle Tay- Mandley, were fined $500 each by Mayor Mathe- Mr, Black is is to face trial in the This caused a display of agitation County Cwminal Court to-morrow on by many Senators. , TILLMAN CONFESSED INA MOMENT LARES DE Will Be Made De j.ancey Nicoll, of counsel for James A, Stillman, President of the National City Bank, in his action for divorce against Fifi Potter Sti bru,}it out in open court before Justice Morschauser at White ruse day the nature of the charges on which evidence has been heard in secret before a referee in this city for a month past. In an argument as to the amount at which the court should fix the * hate alimony, to be paid Mrs, Stillman pending the determination of -the suit, Mr, Nicoll said: |amount as alimony and counsel fee as Your Honor may set. His position is this; - “He belleves and the evidence proves that the gentlewomaa he married and the mother of his three children took as her lover am | Indian guide.” —_—_F Jon F. Brennan, of counsel for be. 'ZIMMER AND NEUF “Mr, Stiliman is ASKED FOR BY U.S. Tried to Capture Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. March 23.—The through the State De-! Allen, commander of American \rmy of Occupation in release of the Americans, but nless the two are freed Repre- tative Beanton says he will bring matter before Congress. lating Local Ordinance in Florida. Fie., March 28.—Harry 3. of Miami, when he pleaded no con- “Bayview,” when fifty cases of Black's bay front lot also yielded bay front lot caretaker, and J, R. porter on the Bayview, Monday. charge of violating the State OF HYSTERIA,” LANCEY be Public. } { willing to pay any such reasonable — Stillman, objected that this statement had nothing to do with the amount of alimony, Justice Morschausersai@ he agreed with Mr. Brennan, bub would defer to Mr. Nicoli’s sua ment. Mr. Nicoll reiterated bis ing statement and continued: “The evidence, 1 said, proves s ft ts Borne out by six have already testified, ‘The paral further shows that the Indlay was the father of a child, Guy Stillmam whom Mr, Stillman must acknowledge: Or repudiate as illegitimate. It aps Pears that this Intimacy began am | early a8 1916 and continued into 19} “Mr. Stillman feels it his duty his father’s memory, to his family | and to bis ebildrem 19 i..0 this pains | ful action, 2 do ma know what the feelings arm of a father whose = + is palwonea by knowing his t has yielded to the embraces a Indian guide. Still less do I know of his feelings after that wife in 4 moe. ment of hysteria had cohfessed her guilt.” Mr. Brennan had previously waived. the examination of Mr, Stillman o@ to bis resources stating that Core nelius J, Sullivan for Mr, Stillmag. had just handed him a stipulation acknowledging Mr, Stillman’s income for the present year was about | $536,000. ‘ iy HER CONFESSION IN MOMENT . OF HYSTERIA, Judge Morschauser, after taking ~ affidavits from Mr. Nicoll, which it was rumored Included the letter from Mrs. Stillman to her husband to which the lawyer had referred as “a confession made in a moment of hys-, teria,” adjourned the hearing until. Monday, saying he would examine the affidavits over the week-end bes fore filling them, when they would ber made public He asked in what” county the lawyers desired them filed,. ~ Mr. Nicoll indicated the abandon- | ment of the policy of Secrecy by the” plaintiff in his reply, saying with ea parent seriousness: “Why not con.) sult the convenience of the reporters? They will all want the contents of the papers.” “Why not hand the affidavits. the reporters now, then?” asked Jus tice Morachauser, “We do not like to do that wot | Your Honor has gone over them," replied Mr. Ntooll. When coyrt opened Justice ‘The subject then was dropped and Probipition Epforcement Act, He was Ape Henute proceeded with other clea matters, Aer ved ja the Wederal Court lawt Fri Sepia.