The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1921, Page 2

© Lobbyists and Mischief hit Makers. AT WORK. " European Nations Depends Upon United States. + By David Lawrence. WASHINGTON, March 2 (Copy- Wight, 1901) —All the various Influ- ehoes which managed to Keep the relations ®etweon the Wilson Ad- ministration and Mexico in an atmo- sphere of controversy, mutual suspi- cion, propaganda and selfishness, in- terfering with the efforts of the two Governments to got together, are at ‘work again trying this time to pre- vent the Harding Administration feom reaching an understanding with the Obregon Government. ‘It is true that the conditions laid ‘Dy Secretary Colby as a step recognition are in the main >) (ovbat the new Administration hero _* Wants to see accepted. If the two Governments, however, were the only _ [factors in the situation the solution ““palght be worked out amicably, But yoortain American interests, impatient to force the hand of both Washing- ton ahd Mexico City, are determined t© show Gen. Obregon that unless he comes to terms the same process Of disintegration will set in as man- aged to wonken the Carranza Gov- at. ooell —«Nobyithbtanding the fact that con- ditions ta Mexico are greatly im- that Mexico is back in the same Stages of anarchy as sho was four years ago. as the Harding on matters of for- have déen chardGterized to help Mexioo by evolu- er than revolution, There slightest ground for be- the Harding Administra- i countries to-day is that impressions gent out broadcast concerning State not the case ‘The trouble seoms to be, of course, that President Obregon is sparring. He believes possibly that recogaition wil come ig the natural course witb- out « the conditions laid down ‘by the ‘States, He js willing t ageomt to the desires of the United States unofiicially, Dut unwilling to Tecord those pledges on paper in the He contends that is #tiil strong enough to unseat him y if he appears to be yleld- ing to the United States. “However that may be, the Obregon }) Government is suffering now from the , Tact that the oral pledges of the Car- _ fansa Government, indeed their @romises, proved valuciess and body of Americans who iterests in Mexico insist that something substantial shall) given as a gusrantec that the lives well a8 property of Americans will I ! joally all the European Gov- ts-have indicated to Mexico Until the United States extends ition it would be impolitic for toact. This has been traditional . Washington is indeed the key Mexican situation, and Ameri. bankers stand ready to assist in refunding her debts the @ favorable understanding is Detween the Harding and Administrations, If these wnments were left alone to ‘ out the problem all would be is ‘The difficulty is that emissaries, i lawyers who justify large } acd a lot of mischief makers are again. They have already be- gun, the campaign against Obregon wit! Nipeg Si caergpen lpg in their minds as the single @olution satisfac- “tory to them. 2 all Galanin 'RADICALS SECEDE FROM LABOR PARTY ‘British Minority Faction Decides $ to Join the Com- : . * munists. | SOUTHPORT, England, March 29 GAssociated § Press).—The minority _ Waction of the Independent Labor : , the extreme wing of the Brit- _- fm Labor Party, decided at a meet- here to-day to agcede from the pendent Labor Party and join the Party. iff til 1 j = No Basis for Belief of Am- bition for Office. SCALLAN TBLLS STORY. Did Not Have Any Intent to Reflect Upon Justice in Review of Sentences. William A. Debord to-day took the witness stand before Supreme Court Juntice MaAvoy and read 4 statement in answer to the testimony of Samue! Untermyer given yosterday in the contempt proceedings against Mobert O. Scallan, Ruel (P, Gmith, Wikiam P, Beazell and James .W. Barrett of ‘The Morning World staff. Mr. DeFord gave his version of the conversation with Stanley Richter, Mr, Untermyer's @on-in-law, which preceded Delord's designation as Special Deputy Attorney Generaly in the building material men's casos arising from the Lockwood Commit- teo investigution conducted by Mr. Untermyer. Mr, DeFord denied that Mr, Unter- myer had any ‘basis for reference to his, Deford’s, amiition to become District Attorney, He had such an aspiration when he was an assistant prosecutor and still has it, Mr, De- Ford eays, but declared that he nevor had mentioned jt to Stanley Richter more than six times. He said that on one occasion he mentioned to Mr, Richter that he supposed 4t would be bad policy for him to chailenge Mr. Untermyer's il! will,’ Beyond a tuncheon and per- haps @ cigar or two, Mr. De Ford said, he is under no obligation to Mr. Untermyer. He said Mr. Untermyer told him Mayor Hylan was a crook and he (De Ford) ought to go to Mr. Hearst and tell him 60. He proceeded to read a letter to Mr, Hearst, ‘but it was ruled out hy Justice McAvoy, on objection ‘by Siegfried Hartman, representing the office of John B. Stanchfield, for the defendants. Mr. De Ford said his friction with! Mr. Untermyer began when the| (Hearst newspapers, for which he is attorney, began attacking Untermyer and the Lockwood Investigation, ster Mr. Untermyer hal called Mayor Hylan to the witness stand and bad attacked him with . series of ques- tions “full of insidious attack and dirty inuendo.” Hc said when he took over the work assigned to him by Mr. Untermyer the evidence was & mass of valueless material and he bad to go ahead and build it up. He said when he took back bis letter of resignation from Mr. Unter- myer he did 6o “as a mati of courtesy, and only because } did not want to throw ét in hip face.” He complained of “arrogant treat- ment” at the hands of Mr. Unter- myer, and dercribed him as “general- insimo” of the Lockwood investiga- tion. . This (eecription was objected to THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 19 UNKERS READY DEFORD TELLS OF TRANSIT MEASURE “TY ASSIST MEXED/UNTERANER PLAN. HOTLY ATTACKED WMENTIME COMES; IN BULDING CASES ‘Situation Not Being Helped by|Says Lockwood Counsel Had INFINAL HEARING Governor Told He is Array- ing the Vested Interests Against the People. ALBANY, March 29.—An array of Persona opposed to the enactment of the Kolght-Adier bill reorganizing the Public Service Comminsions and creating 4 transit commission to have control of. the traction wituation tn New York. City voloed their senti ments against the measure at a hear- ing before Gov. Miller to-day, Mayor George R. Lunn of Sehnec- fady, one of the leading opponents of the bill, told the Governor that in submitting his protest he “was labor. ing under no delusion, inasmuch as your public expressions regarding the matter have indicated your own fooling.” “Phis action,” asserted the Mayor, “determines whether or not we are to be ruled from Albany. ‘ “The day will come,” he continued, addressing the Governor, “just as surely us yon are sitting on that ¢ehair, when more radical men will vse this bill as a lever and @ pr cent, The time will come when ye will have running for the Legislature & representative of the vested in- terests and a demagogue, and when & voter has had only half @ breakfast and no hope of dinner you know whieh one he will vote for.” At this point the Governor broke in, saying: Haven't we Almost that situation before us now, Mayor?" The chief arguments of the appon- ents were that the bill encroached upon the municipalities’ right of home rule, that it took from the cities the right to regulate local franchises and that it abrogated contract obil- gations. Those speaking against the bill in cluded, in addition to Mayor Lunn, William P. Capes, Secretary of the Mayor's Conference, Corporation Counsel John P, O'Brien of New York, Corporation Counsel Thomas H. Guy {rom ‘Troy, Corporation Counsel Robert Moore of Niagara Falls, Assistant District Attorney Frank Oliver of the Bronx, and Agnes Craig of the Womap's Bronx League, Among the supporters of the meas- ure were George McAneny, former Borough President of Manhatian; William McCaroll, Chairman of the Rapid Transit Committee of the New York State Chamber of Commerce; former Comptroller William A. Pren. dergast of New York and Oliver C. Sample, former counsel to the Public Seryice Commission, First District, pissse costed Nfeb As TO ARE KILLED AND 50 WOUNDED IN GHIGAGD BLAST (Continued from First Page.) ace if they could identify any of the victims, ‘The first body to reach the County by Mr. Hartman, but Stanley Richter interposed on Mr, Umtermyer’e be- half, offering to accept the title, Justice MoAvoy smilingly remarked that it meant the “supreme chief,” and that was what Mh. Untermyer appeared to be. Before Mr. DeFord took the witness stand, Mr. Gcallan testified in his own behalf. Gir, Beallan definitely and explicit- ty disclaimed any intention or inolin- ation to reflect upon the court in the story compained of. He said it did nt appear to him that there was any refiection upon the court in telling of what appeared to be an arrangement between representatives of the in- dicted material men and a represen- tative from Mr, DeFord to allow the defendants to escape with a fine upon pleas of guilty. Mr, Gcallan told how he was as- signed to the Lockwood committee story on the day in question and incidentally was told to try to find out what lay bebind an announce- ment by Deputy Attorney General Berger |) the afternoon papers, that he woul, insist tha’ the prosecu.ors stould vemand jail sentences in all the Lockwood comu\ttee cases, He said Mr, Beas)! told bim that Stanley Richter had received a let- ter from Mr, Untermyer, outilning a plan that had been unearthed, by which (be masons’ building material men were to escape with fines by pleading guilty. Scallan explained how the filing of demurrers and withdrawa] of the pleas of not guilty previously made by the masons’ building materia) dealers had passed unnoticed and the only explanation he could get at the time was that they must have been led in chamber, At the close of his testimony Scal- tan made a complete and explicit ris- avowal of any contempt of the court. Neatinemceaeipessereeiens Wireless Lifted, arch 29,—Presi- dent Harding and his cabinet to-day decided on remo of navy censor- ship over commercial wireless, _ : pS PE bara Morgue was identified as that of Mike Tipanski, thirty-two, a truck driver. He was found underneath the wrecked uilding, It is not known whether he was in the build- ing at the time or was hurled from his truok. CHICAGO March 2 (Associated Press).—Police theories of the cause of the explosion ranged through bombing, faulty gas mains, starch and flour dust to fireworks. ‘The building, a one-story brick structure, was filed bak oat 4 stocks, but the police also leadner that a quantity of fireworks had been stored in tho basement, Witnesses suid there wore two re- ports, the first being succeeded at onee by a deafening crash, The first six bodies recovered from the rains apparently were those of workmen. One of the survivors told the police that about a dozen men were employed in the place, but that. some truck drivers also were in the warehouse when it blew up. Edward Schafer denied knowledge oft he ownershw oft he fireworks stored in the warehouse. A police detective reported finding a bill of sale in the Schafer shop which indi- cated that 165 cases of torpedoes had pees, Ls alia the bests from @ ennsylvania fireworks ©o y on Fe. 28. brie “One of our officers found what ap- peared to be part of a detonating do- vice,” sad Chief of Police Fitzmorr! “and another picked up some was ding that smelled strongly of gu powder, tut those may have been parts of fireworks. Hundreds of children attending the James Garfield Pyblic School, nea) ‘by, bad fust loft the butiding for re- cess when the explosion shattered the glass roof, covering the desks on the top floor with debris, but no one was Injure mendations LIEUT. W. D. CONEY DYING, Aviator in Transcontinental FUEM, Ureaking His Back. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. March 29.— Tout, William Devoe Coney, army avia- tor, who's back was ‘broken when his plano crashed near Crowville, La, 1s dying, according to a meapage recedved here to-day by Frank H. cousin Of the avintor. The message is signed by E. F. Coney jr... brother, who 44 at the flyor's bed: de of the cyer'e side in a hospital at Soney. who broke (he trans-conti- Mallard, | Of Atlanta in the last national cham- Body of Cardinal Gibbons Lying timore Cathedral In State in Bal UNS. RELIGIOUS ORDERS FILL CATHEDRAL AT GIBBONS MASS Great Crowds View Body of | Beloved Cardinal Lying | in State. | BALMMORE, March 29,—Mombers of the different Catholic religious or- ders, male and female, filled the Cathedral this morning at the second of the eeries of special requiem | masses for the repose of the soul of Cardinal Gibbons, who died last Thursday. ‘The Rev. Eugene J. Con- | nelly, Chancellor of the Diocese, wan the celebrant and the music was sung by the students of St Charles's College, Catonsville. After the services the public re- sumed its slow march past the Car- dinal’s bier. Ail day yesterday until 11 o'clock last night, when the edifice was closed, people of afl creeds and stations in life filed past the cata~ falque to take a last look at the benign and familiar features of the dead prelate as the body lay in state, clad in the vestments of his high office. The National Federation of Ukrainian Jews of America in con- vention here adopted resolutions of sympathy “to the people of Baltimore and all who mourn the passing of his Eminence.” Amembly Adjourns to Respect Cardinal's Me’ * ALBANY, March 29,—The As- | sembly, after a brief session last night, |adjourned out of respect to the memory of Cardinal Gibbons. A | resolution adopted read that in the death of the Cardinat “the people have lost a distinguished leader, the Nation a staunch and inspiring corre and humanity a kindly and elpful friend.” FINALS REACHED IN WOMEN’S GOLF MEET Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. Letts to Play Sectional Title at Pinehurst. | for |__ PINEHURST, N, ©, March 29:~ Mrs, -Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Pittsburgh and Mrs. F, C. Letts, Jr., of Chicago, to-day won their way to the final round of the North and South golf championship. “Mrs. Hurd defeated Mra. J. §. Pritchard of the Midlothian ub of Chicago, three and two, and Mrs, Letts won by the tame margin from Mm. John D. Chapman of Greenwich. The final rounds are to be pluyed to-morrow. Mra. Pritchurd held Mra Hurd even for the first nine holes and was but one down going to the fourwenth, but Mrs. Hurd won this hole with a pa: 4 and the fifteenth with a par 3. Mrs. Letts is the Wostern cham- pion, and Mrs, Hurd, beside belng vais Presewt North and South ttleholder, Was runner-up to Miss Alexa Suriing plonshtp. She formerly wen the Brit- and United States cham- | plonahtp, Miss Glenna Collett of Providence / 1919, rer AM. TEL. & TEL. 0. JUMPS TTS DIVIDEND TO NINE PER CENT. (Continued From First Page.) popularity as an investment issue At the close of the year the company had 139,448 shareholders, an increase of 18,988 compared with the close of {Mn addition to these, the com- pany has 43,000 employees who own stock outright, or who are paying for the stock in monthly instalments, Since the close of 1916 shareholders of the company have more than dowbled in number. Prosperity af the company with the telephone rates now in force, and its ability to pay the increased dividend rate of 9 per cent. is best testified to by the fact that during 1920 after paying 8 per cent, in dividends there Was a surplus remainings of $16,444,~ 423, Out of this surplus the company appropriated $8,000,000 for “contin- gencles” or 33,000,000 more than in any previous year in its history, and after this unusually large deduction there was remaining a surplus of $8,- 444,000 or more than twice as much as the company carried to final sur- MEASURE 10 AID ALIENS HERE TO BUY EXCHANGE! PASSES ings Banks to Act Goes to Governor. ALBANY, March 29.—The Cotillo Bill, intended to authorize savings banks to receive money for transmis- sion and to forward it through any bank or trust company incorporated under State or Federal laws, was passed by the Assembly to-day. The measure now goes to the Gov- ernor. ‘The measure which has just passed the Assembly is an important link in the series of Cotillo bills which are dew ing methods of transmitting money abroad under present conditions. been allowed to accept money for foreign transmission. ‘The savings banks are about to ex- tend their business into the foreign quarters of the lange cities of the State. These extensions will involve the establishment of foreign ex- change departments in charge of managers and clerks speaking all Innguages. Inasmuch as savings hanks, are not allowed to make profits, foreign exchange will be sold at rates which will cover only the actual cost of operation, ‘This ‘bil was vigorously opposed by the fakers who have been charging whatever commissions they could exact and were eheating on exchange besides. |200,000 CITIZENS BACK COTILLO BILLS Confederated Hungarians Indorse Measures Against Foreign Exchange Sharks, The concluding session last night of the annual conyention of the Confeder- ated Hungarian Organisations at York- ville Casino resolved itself into a mass meeting which enthusiastically indorsed the ‘biMs Introduced by Senator Salva- tore A. Cotillo, designed to end the robbery of ignorant aliens by manip- ulation of foreign exchange and steam- ship tickets. ‘The convention wns at- tended by 400 delegutes representing seventy-two organizations with a membership of 200,000. Last night the hall was jammed with visitors who had been Invited to listen to addresses by Judge Thomas Cc. T. Crain of the Court of General | Sessions; Dr. Samuel Buchler, Deputy | Commissioner of abrhie - and Harry Schiacht, Welfare Commissioner at Bilis Island, Chief interest dress of Mr. true!" “We robbers !” centred in hlacht. the neo" y ‘The Evening World | wilch the Couillo bills have been framed to end. {The meeting adopted a resolution call- ing upon the members of the amlated organizations to communicate wibh their Senators and Assemblymen and ask them to vote for the passage of the Co- tlle. bills. Rearrested $720,000 ‘Teledo Robbery. Joseph Cohen of No. 111R Broadway, re-arrested last night in connection with the $720,000 rotbery of the Toledo Post Office a month ago, was held by Commissioner Hitdhcock to-day in 6.000 ball to insure his appearance at Toledo for trial. With Joseph Vogel, Frank Miller and Andrew Olz, Gohen was arrested three weeks ago charged with having bonde stolen ‘in the robbery ‘They will be taken to Toledo to- morrow, Cofillo Bill Authorizing Sav-} ed to remedy the evils attend- | Heretofore eavings banks have not| Ae 7 ‘ 5 CTY BRE NAOE FARM DRUDEE BY HUSBAND SHE SA Mrs. Phoebe Viets, Won on Country Vacation, Sues for Separation. Mrs. Phoebe Catharine Viets of No €12 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, ap- plied to Justice Van Giclen in the Rrooklyn Supreme Court to-day for alimony of $50 a week and counse! fees of $260 pending the trial of her separation sult against Elwin V. Viets, a farmer at Walden, N. ¥. “We met in the Summer of 1919, when I was on a vacation In Craw- ford, N. ¥." said Mrs. Viets in her affidavit. “Woe were married June 15, 1920. after a short courtship and I wont to Ifve with him on | | | the evening paper | when I ace th Mother’s Love—and Her Kitchen Slavery After dinner, Mrs. Jack led the children out into the. parlor, where she began to sing “Do you know,” interrupted Mr. Jack, “that Iam finding you all over again as sweetheart and companion since you quit trying to bake your own bread. “Before, you used to have too many dates in the kitchen after evening dinner and it wore you out so that TI always seemed to find you a bit tired.” “Well,” confessed Mrs. Jack, for baking was quite a burden; but you always loved the bread your mother used to bake and you used to say mine reminded you of that. baker's bread, knowing how you felt.” “That's all right, dear," the husband confided,. “but vay the kiddies take to WARD'S, I am glad their mother does not have to slave over the bread pan as mine did owned by ‘hts mother, Mrs, Lithem fl Viets, and run'by him, at Walden. “] was received yery culdly by ni | mother, Twas put to washing dll ‘3 and doing the housework. I became the drudge of the house. I tvas forced to wash the Moors ahd feed the cattle and piss. The food they gave me was mostly pancakes, made of flour and water, potatoes, salted pork and of dried beef. When | vom- he said |t was ‘pretty guod and | would not get any Viets sald phat her husband neglected her, and spent all of his ‘ with his toother, “When [ asked him a question, wften he would not answer me," sie ontinued. “He acted damb." After several months, she sald, she ould not stand it any longer, and sume back to Brooklyn to Uve with her mother, Viets denied his wife's allegations, nd lid said that his mother actaally most of the work, his w fe & that she did not know how « Ho told of his Mrat meot- ng with lis wife He satd thar be was [fn his smai! automobile, when he saw his fur wife, and her ster, ‘She and ber afraid of a b lay —pretetided to in & Pasture tot “hey stopped me, and 1 took them in, my car to. the place where they hbarded.” Vieto sald the trouble Wis that his ‘wife was a city girl, and vodla*not adapt herself to life in the-eountry. Mr. Inck took up, “three nights a week I didn't dare try the “Mother seemed to know bread-making by intuition. And WARD seems to have caught the inspirational moment of that intuition when mother was at her best. They get every loaf the same and every loaf the best that bread can be. “It's a new deal in the world since our wives and sweethearts gained the confidence to say, ‘a loaf of ‘WARD'S please’ and let their bread worries go at that. I'm glad of it, too." WARD, in coaxing mother out of the kitchen, used all the skill that three generations of baling, plus the best science the universities had developed, could give us. patronage. | Capra, PITT, by Word Baking Co. | = eben ts plus account in any previous year. Accumulated surplus earnings of the company at the close of 1920, in- cluding premiums on stock sold stood at $96,649,961. It has been the policy of the company to finance the growth of the business by additional stock issues. Although conditions have stabilized since the war the stock has not sold appreciably above par, A 9 per cent. dividend is expected to maintain the stock at a tu a LALLY LEFT $28,989 ESTATE. Former Deputy Fire Comm’ stoner's Effects Go to Ohildr: ‘The late former Deputy Fire Com- missioner Thomas Lally, who for many years was in change of the fre fighting forces in Brooklyn, left an estate of $28,989, according to the appraisal fled to-day in Brooklyn with Surrogate Wingate, Lally died Oct. 14 at hls home, No, 176 Adelphi Street, Brook lyn. The estate is divided equally amo his three sons und four daughters. = nadine Amsembly Passes Pablic Dancing win, ; ALBANY, March 29.—The Assembly to-day passed the Cotilio Bill designed to ticense public dance halls tn New York City and to give the Comm#ssioner of Litenses power to regulate dancin The vote was #1 to 23. 7 an Hackenburg, Democrat, posed the measure on “you cannot make peo- Dorothy says, “I al- ways reckon how much -Ancre Cheese we'll need. Then I buy just twice that much. And I’ve never known any left «.. the table.’’ ali 23 W. 42nd St. Bet. Sth and 6ch Aves. YONKERS — So A | and Mrs, Eleanor 12. 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We advise placing your order at once—without delay—direct with Landays, ayv 427 Fifth Ave. Ap tith Street 41 Noith B'way We are proud of our product—and hope to keep mother in the parlor by continually deserving her Remember that every loaf of WARD’S BREAD is made to make you «+ want to eat another. . Made completely in This new Victrola is ve made the genuine It is handsome in aici le