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TAL |WORLD WALL STREET ( I EDITION “Cirenlatiog Books — to All,’ | Ris LXL NO. 21 701-—DATLY, Copyright, 1021, co - Senator Co Accusation in Senate, Nam- ing Cunard Company. REPEATS BRIBE ORY. Also Threats on His Life for In- troducing Law to Regulate Money Transmission. by Joseph (Staff Correspon, |. Jordan. protection of the thousands of n the against the money larks who, as private bunk= thelr capacity ub-agents he express and mship com- punies, gouge their feliow Sarees 4 of the money they home to their distres The story of the threats and the | witempts to bribe were teld in the! Hvening World about two weeks ago, Wut the public telling of it in the, benate made a wonderful prema | the Senator's colleagues. Coullo charged: (1) That chis ‘life has been Bhreatened and that a bribe of $50,000 had been offered him to cease his activities in behalf of the measure. (2) That a powerful lobby, at the head of which is George A. Glynn, Ch lican State Committee, and Franklin B. Lord, former coun- sel to former Gov. Whitman, is working to defeat the bill. 13) That gsub-agents of the Cunard Steamship Company and other organizations have raised a fund of $200,000 to oppose the bill through the foreign language papers. (4) That foreign born residents of this country have been and are being swindled out of millions of dollars annually by: agents of various steamship and expres: companies: one agent alone hav- ing absconded with $32,000. "Since this bill was introduced Wontinged: on Sixteenth Page.) — JERSEY ‘FARE RAISE SUSPENDED AGAIN State posin °s n ste strive on in increase to Ten Cents, Effective April 1, Held Up gfor Three Months. / TRENTON, March 30.—The proposed fucrease of fare from 7 to 10 cents by the Public Service Railway Company fhas been ordered suspended for tl months longer or until July 1, by the Beate Public Utility Comnssion, The former commission had suspended the fncrease until April 1, pending hearing en the Increase, wv. Edwards has signed the Frank- ‘in oil, which permits the commission suspend proposed rate increases ‘for ix months instead of hres, pending hearing by, the co CHICAGO, March 30,—-Members the City Council Aviation Committee to-day announced plans for a municipal fending field for: aipplanes along the La t, near the Municipal Pier and within & ehort Gistance is the come; town t BH TUITE) be propor old. ateet lone and 500 feet wide, ff the! of the city, goperly ; $200,000 FUND WAS BY STEAMSHIP MEN TO BEAT BILL AINIED AT MONEY SHARKS lent of The Evening! july r.! Thirty irman of the Repub- | (The New York World). by Tho F Publishing RAISED stillo Makes Direct. RICKARD WILL NAME FIGHT SITE APRIL 9 carpentier-Dempsey Promoter An- nounces That Bout Will Be Held in United States Tox Rickard announced to-day that © would name the site of the Demp- y-Carpentiar heavyweight cham- ionship > pasitively on April ® The contest will be held in the United ates, the promoter added. ‘This di yoxes of the bi received from Canad ni London. ‘The date of the mill, remains unchanged. = JOWNSON WOULD ": DISRUPT TWO Ble BASEBALL LEAGUES Cent. of Club Owners Must Go, Says American B Per CLEVELAND, O., March 20 (United Press).—"Thirty per cent. of the own- ers of teams in the American and N: | tional Leagues must go,” Ban John- son, President of the American League, declared here to-day, sary Johnson is to speak here to-night at the annual meeting of the Cleve- jand Recreation Council on “Keeping Baseball Cican.” “Changes in ownership are neces- for the good of the game, Johnson added. “[ expect to see the other 70 per cent. of the owners combine with me to see that this much-needed change is brought about “[ don't want to say now 30 per cent. are, but know.” It ts believed that Johnson had ref- erence to the club owners who tried who the I guess you to force his resignation several months ago. Johnson believes that ‘baseball is fundamentally sound and clean.” “Professional baseball,” he said, “exists only so long as ft vs the confidence of the people. not going to let it lose public confidence.” a MRS. HURD WINS IN GOLF FINALS Pittsburgh Woman " Defeats Mrs. Letts for Sectional Title at moreland Club, ttle as North and South golf champion to-day by defeating Mra, F. C. Letts jr, of the Onwentsia Club, Chicago, four and three in the final round of the an, nual tournament Surrogate Cohalan to-day appointed John F, Couch of No, 271 Broadway, referee to take testimony in ad- noe of trial in the contest over the jl of Francis H. Ross, who divided ue 000 among four employees in his ftice at No, 68 John Strest, and but $1,000 to Zdwin, one of bie sone. To the widew w, Pass gee. and to pprther. spy. Fancle Ht 1 Mealted? Pinehurst. PINDHURST, N.C. March 20.—Mre. | Dorothy Campbell Hunt of the West- Pittsburgh, retained her | MAIL CAR AFLAME, LONG ISLAND TRAIN SPEEDS FOR HELF Passengers Firé as 38 Sagks Burn— Car’s Dami de $4,000. BALK FIREMEN. Blaze Starts Near Jamaica Is Put Out in YardS at Long Island City FUMES and The mail car on the rear of No. S87, @ Long Island Rattroad four-car electric train from Long Beach for Manhattan, caught fire at,12.15 A. M to-day soon after the train had left |Jamaica, where .% took on forty sacks and two pouches of mail. ‘The blaze, believed to have started | ‘om sulphur or other inflammable | | material in the mall, was not no- tiedd until’ the train reached Harold | |Avenue, Woodside, ‘There were no | |postal clerks aboard and the flames | had made good headway. Motorman O. Whaley and Condue- tor W. Tunnison, with other mem- pas@engers in the three cars ahead, tried to extingutsh the flames, but soon saw it was impossible and |wired to Long Island City to the Pennsyivania Railroad Fire De partment ready The train then made a quick run | from Woodside | with the burning car, which was cut joff in the Sunnyside yards for the Pennsylvania fifemen. The orld.) Rickard said to-day that he had been | ALBANY, Marcel 20 — Senator + conference with Kearns, represent- Cotilio of New York City, on the | ing Dempsey, and with + floor of the Senate told in| representati most droma¥e fashion how his icc | all partes to the tind: been threatetied and/a bribe pr] Moot AONE eas eRe date for the cate: oring of the site of the battle. $50,090 had deen offered im to drop) iyo anne:mcement ix taken ds. indi- 3 bill which would compel steat-| Qating that Rickard has virtually com- sip and express companies engaged pleted various necessary preliminaries the money transmission business incidental to staging the match within to come under the banking laws of a reasonable radius of Greater New Aue State York. « ‘The ill is one of a series the New == York Sena has introduced tor the the Pennsylvania Station here, arriv- ing forty minutes late. The firemen had a difficult time with the flames because of the fumes that came from chemicals «Jin the burning mail sacks. All except two sacks of the mail were destroyed, and | the damage to the car was estimated | at $4,000. FIRE ROUSES MANY IN NEARBY HOTEL) Bradford Guests Leave Rooms, but | Flames Are Confined to Factory. Fire late last night swept the third and fourth floors of a four-story manufacturing building back of No. 63 Bast lith Street, causing damage estimated at about $25,000. Phillip Roth, proprietor of the Hotel Bradford, at No. 65 East 11th Street, saw smoke and flames issuing trom the windows of the building, and fearing the would communi- cite to the sounded the house alarm to arouse ran to 10th Street and Broadway, where a fire alarm was turned The fire was soon got under control, The building is occupied by the Motor Blectrical Supply Company. Twenty-eight guests of the Hotel Bradford left their rooms, but the| hote] was at no time in do er. ae ; ANNUAL SUPPLY BILL GOES TO GOVERNOR | a we hotel, Passes Senate Ueninpudveceres vides $98,000,000 for State’s Expenses. — @LBANY, March 30.—The annual propriation bHI, carrying @ total of aout $98,000,000, was passed by the § without dissenting gvote to-day.’ vill now goes to the Governor. Puxaage of the measure was preceded by a discussion of more than two hours, in the course of which Minority Leader Walker criticised certain features, ing particular stress upon the that the State Hospital Commission's allowance Was suMelent the Ben the nate lay- clain not for | proper conduct of the department ator Walker, vin. however, voted for SS yRE ae TRAVEL BURBS. berg of the crew and some of the 150! have | to Long Island City) three | cars of passengers were brought to| the guests, and then | in. | Bet a ! STILLMANS AGREED TO PART, BUT BABY BUY UPSET PLANS and ae hae Fight Settlement Baie Had Drawn | iavestea in subwa Up Made No Provision For the Little Chap. W IFE MADE OBJECTION Lawyers Said to Have Located| 29 Women Who Figure in the Case Thus Far. The question of the legitimacy of | two and @ half year old Guy Still- | nan, which stands out of the divorce action involving the James A. Still- mans every time an out-of-court set- tlement is discussed was the first Reuse of outwardly breaking the friendly relations between Mr. and | day. According this statement Stillmans, a year ago, bad come an amicable agreement to live apart. Mrs. Stillman, in a fetter to her ‘hus- to the to band, now describéd as “the confes- | sion,” and in conversations with him | had expressed dissatisfaction with | their family life; she was irritated by Mr, Stillman’s criticisms of her care- llessness in extravagant expenditure; she felt that his neglect of her by prolonged absences, even when both | were in the city, and conspicuous at- tentions to women outside her circio rather justifled her craving for lib- erty from the conventions. A pact was drawn up by which Mr. Stillman agreed to “provide for the children" and also to give his wife a personal allowance of $50,000 a yeur, to which she was absolutely limited, |This paper was drawn up and was | ready for her signature when she dis- {covered that the provision for the lehilacad named specifically Anne, |James and Alexander and did not |name Guy, Mrs, Stillman, who tad | tainty dipped the pen in the ink to | sign the paper, violently repudiated it lon the ground that it was legal | confession of actual as well as spirit- ual unfaithfulness and would pur a ‘stain on the good name of the baby, |In this frame of mind she set abou looking for ground for an action against Mr, Stillman, She was not jat all successful at first and seemed likely to fail Mr. Stillman, according to his |friends, was greatly angered by her expressed determination to is reputation when he had been will- ing to allow his own suspicions ana! few, und instr ed his attorneys to |begin the action which has brought not only her affairs but his own be- “|fore the public | Mr. Stillman, it is intima « fontinued on Bouniasge h Page.) 19 RESIDENTS OF TAVISTOCK AND 19 VILLAGE JOBS |, at that No Blue Law Sundays in Place | Just Incorporated by Rich Golf Players. CAMDEN, N, J., March MERE will be blue Sundays in the new village of Tavisteck. The Camden County Board of Elections to-day received returns from ‘Tavistock Village, near Haddonfield, announcing that nineteen votes had been cast by the millionaire members of the Haddon Country Club, who incor- porated a village in order to bo abletto play Sunday golf. There are exactly nineteen cor- porate offices to be filled and each resident was elected to fill ome of them. ) law born no * Mrs, Stillman, it was established to- | melusions to be kept out of public | | oo te armenia sae 9 _NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, GOVERNOR TO SIGN FARE BILL TO-DAY Miller Likely to Announce Traction Commission Appointments Next Wee Special trum # Stadt Conewemadent ‘Phe Kee itt Workl.> ALBANY, March 30.—Gov. Miller's traction ‘bill, which takes away from |New York control of its $30,000,000 will be law be- |fore to-night. The Governor, when | asked to-day when he would sign the bill, replied: | 1 shall act on it to can divine the action.” The probably would announce the appointment of the Traction Commission the middle of next week. 300 BREWERS -WANTTOTURNOUT MEDICINAL BEER and you Governor said | Two or Three Would Be Suf- ficient to Meet Need, Kramer Declares. WASHINGTON, March 30.—Three hundred breweries are clamoring for permits to brew “medicinal” beer under the recent ruling af the Depart- ment of Justice, Federal Prohibition ‘Commissioner John F. Kramer said to-day. “One or two breweries could manu- facture enough beer to meet gitimate medicinal needs of the en- tire United States," Kramer )jded. In the brewories lies the real dan-* ger that the ruling handed down by Attorney General Palmer before le left office will put the United States on a beer basis in centradiction to the Prohibition amendment and the Volstead law, Kramer fears. | “Beer swill be slipped out from some | breweries to the underground traffic unless we are very watchful,” suid Mr. Kramer, “There is no need to fear that the majority of physicians will abuse their authority to prescribe beer for their patients. Many physi- clans probably will not take out per- mits to prescribe it, Neither is there much danger that the drug stores of the country will at once Saloons as some people “Beer is rather more bulky than hard liquor and would ‘be a bother ito handle in large quantities even at $1 a bottle which some persons be lieve will be the price of ‘mediginal’ become seem to fear. beer. ment of National Prohbition now lies m the breweries," Mr. Kramer, under Attorney Gen- attack | }eral Palmer's ruling, has no authority | |to withhold a permit from any brew on the ground that ther are enough breweries in operation to fll |the demand for beer for medicinal purposes, Neither can he refuse a permit to any manufacturer on the ground that there are too many mak- ery and who can show that he intends to | manufacture In conformance with the law. His knowledge of the number of that want breweries Permits was gained, the Commissioner said, from the receipt of hundreds of letters, Application blanks for permits have not yet been formulated, and no per- mits can be given out until the blanks are ready re BRINDELL STILL HERE. Will Be Taken to Sing Sing To-Day or To-Morrow. | Robert P, Brindell, former heall of the Bullding ‘Trades Counsel and sentenced | to serve from five to ten years in prison for extortion, will be sent to Sing Sing | oither to-day to-morrow, Sheriff Knott having not yet de transport the prisoner. ‘An order to take Brindell to Binj | was to-day served on the She: Deputy Attorneys General Berger and Rach who prosecuted the buildi trade cases. Brindell hax asked Sheri ats for ave delay in which to or 85 nN the le- | The great danger to enforce-| ers in that particular district. In fact, be must Issue permits for the manu- _ |facture of beer and liquor to any | | manufacturer whose record is guod ded when to} Lo| Cireylation Books (“Circulation Books Open to At”| 1921. Peet Office, intersd as Second-Clast Matter KILLED IN NEW RED RIOTS To-Merrow's 1a. NAL THE EDITION to Am} Weather—FAIR, WARMER. . New York, N. ¥. $200.000 SLUSH FUND, DECLARES COTILLO EX CONVICT LIVES AFTER BULLET IS CUT FROM BRAI Mania Expected to Disappear | Following Operation By Invalid Surgeon. PATIENT PINE.” | ‘Glad | Took Chance,” Says) Leondowski, Whose Mind Now Appears Normal. re- | Roman by Dr. Chapman of Brooklyn, in| to overcome the homicidal ps of the patient, was shown this morning as be in the hospital of Sing Sing Prison, where the operation was per- formed yesterday afternoon. flattened bullet the brain of ragged, ‘neved from Leondows William L. un effort tendenc: to Leondowski an ex-convict, | lay ‘Tm tighty glad I took the |chanee,” he said with something like Ja smile, because he had taken a chance, the success of thy operation being a grave question in the minds ot the surgeons who witnessed it. "I feel fine,” he edded. Later Leon- dowak|'s condition was pronouncdd wonderful. The man’s mind ap- peared normal ever since he came out from the ether last night. ‘The operation was not only remark- able for the skill with which Dr. Chap- m&n performed it, but for the reason he was so weak {rom illness at the time he had to be taken with the utmost care from his home, No. 652 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, to the prison in a motor car and wheeled into the operatinggroom in an invalld's chair and then placed on a stool at the side of the operating table to perform the incision Hight phywicians and surgeons as- sembled in the operating room to watch Dr. Chapman's fingers and in- struments open, investigate and close the skull of a man who, so sight had they believed the chances of succes:, had just before received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church from Chaplain Cashin, Some time ago Leondowski com- pleted a term in Sing Sing for as- sault committed in this city, but his crratic conduct required his deten- tion and he was transferred to the hospital in Dannemora Prison. | Usually be was rational and of nor- mal behayior, but he fell victim oc- vasionally to fits of epilepsy, depres- sion and suicidal mania, His head was X-rayed. Two bullets were die- |closed. Leondowski explained that | four years ago he was shot in Sche- | neetady ina street fight. Dr, Chapman removed # nec- lion the size of a silver dollar. He ned the brain covering, known as the dura. He ran his finger into tho brain until he located a bullet in the motor area, inches below the | top. two Carefully ho loosened the leaden | pellet, and worked {t three inches to {the Inner wall of the skull, Then he slid it upward to the aperture he had made, He picked the bullet out with forceps. It was half an inch long and weighed one-sixth of an ounce, Again the surgeon trephined, this time under the right ear in the region of which the X-ray had shown the second bullet to have lodged. He found the missile too deeply imbedded and decided not to remove it, because {ts removal was not necessary to restoration of the patient's. mental stability and nature had provided it with a protective senk of brain tissue, “Indications are the operation will be a great success,” said Dr, Chap- man to-day at his home, ‘The im- media result ds splendid, but the ultimate result will not be known for at least six months. When | left the patient last night he was much better than I had expected. Loon- dowski is in the hands of alienisis now. They will watch the develop- ments closely and 1 presume I wilt be kept advised of the condition. of j a the patien OVER THREE SCORE KILLED y AS COMMUNISTS RESUME RIOTING IN ‘Police Recapture Sharp Fight; 50 Dead Reported There—Disorder in Dresden; 92 Communists, 14 Arrested. BERLIN, March 30 (Associated which had appeared to be at the pol: RHINE SECTION Gevelsberg After of Them Women, mw Press).—The Communist uprising, int of collapse, has flickered up again in various sections of Germany and reports to-day indicate that more than three-score persons have been killed in the renewed fighting. ‘The district between Leipsic and Halle appears now to be the chiét wone of the Communist operations, cities has been suspended. and train service between these two _ rr The Communists who were defeat- VIVIANI AND HUGHES CONFER IN | CAPITAL French Envoy Waits | call of ‘Next’ in Barber Shop, in Contrast to His 1947 Visit. WASHINGTON, March 30,—Rene Viv- iant, former Premter of France, who arrived here last night on an offichl visit of courtesy to President Harding. presented his credentjals as Knvoy Dx- traordinary to Secretary Hughes to- day at the State Department. Accom~- panied by Ambnamdor Jusserand, the @nvoy spent more than un hour in con- ference with Mr. Hughes, Stato Department officials explained to-day that while having the rank of Special Ambaseador, M, Viviant is not visiting the United States as a guest of the nation as he wwas in 1917, when he was accorded special honors. ‘This accounted, they said, for the fact that no official notice was taken of his ar- rival last night ‘The same striking difference between this and his war-time visit to Wash- ington was noticeable when the envoy dropped into his hotel barber shop early in the day for a shave, Me was alone and no one recognized him, so he wait- ed his turn for « yaoant chair, answer ing the call of “next” promptly, de- spite hie unfamiliarity with the Eng+ lish tanguagy. Sine hana, COOPER UNION BARS MEETING FOR DEBS Socialist’ Leader Asserts He Was Toki It Could Not Be Held There. Socialist leaders who planned to hold ‘a meeting at Cooper Union tn behalf of Eugene Debs and “other political prisoners’ were told to-day that they cannot use thd building for that pur- pose. Ado\ph Germer, head of the commit- tee, mid he called at the Cooper Union yeuterday od told April 4 and April 7 were open. He said later he re al word that the meeting could not be held there Socialist leaders are surprised eapectally in view of the faet that Madison Square Garden was re- cently used for what they term @ “pro- German meeting.” The Direotor of Cooper Union ts C. R. Richards and the President is R. Fulton Cutting, was a GRANTS INJUNCTION AGAINST PICKETS Supreme Court Justice Van Sicion, in Brooklyn, this afternoon granted to Schwartz & Jaffee, clothing manu- facturers, ‘having their principal place of business in the Bush ‘Termi- na} (Building, Brookly#, an injunction restraining Sidney Hillman, individ- ually and as General President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amorica, from “unlawful t ing, threats, molestation, int) tion, interference with contrac! employment and instigating, weging inving « strike among plain- eoery ny ed recently in.the Mansfeld district have regrouped their forces near Grobers (Givbsig?), where they are said to be in possession of a strong position, They are well oqul especially with machine-guns, In an effort to dislodge them the security pollce lost twelve killed. ‘The largest number of casualties Fr ported was from Gevelsberg, West- phalla, messages stuting that fifty persons Killed in yesterday's olashes when the police recaptured they |town from the Communists, who had | been in possession for several hours, LONDON, March 30—A se! Communist riot in Dresden has oak, put down by the authoritics of that city, it is announced in a Berlin mes- sage received by the Exchange Tele- graph Company to-day. Ninety-two’ Communists arrested, fourteen women being among their aumber, Roports frém Duesseldorf throug! the sume channels declare the Com- munist activity in the Rhine region iy increasing, and it is asserted that some mines in the district have been selaed by workers, ‘The trouble at Jena, the glass mamu- facturing centre, has been attended by some success on the part of the Com- nrunists in their efforts to start a gen- eral strike. Messages report that they have occupied the Carl Zeiss opttes! works, 4 plant of world-wite celebrity, have stopped street railway traffic and forced the eloctric workers ta lay down their toots. During disorders at Mannheim the police were attacked and returned the fire, kiMing three persons and wound- ing five ot were were ———— “ANTI-SPEED TRAP” BILL NOW A LAW Governor Signs Measure Relating to the Travelled Portion of the Highway. ALGANY, Mam) 30.—Gov. Miiler to- day signed the Lowman bill, designed to amend the Highway Law in relates to local ordinances limiting the speet of motor vehicles Under the amended law, the speed limit sections are restricted to the “travelled portion” of cach main public highway where th y or village Ine crosses the same. Previous to the ime troduction of the wordy ‘travelled pur- tlon” municipal authoritioe were pe mitted to place spee! restrictions on all portions of the highway within # boundaries of the munfotpalities, As a result automobilists were arrested for speeding on highways that were outalde of congested or built-up sections of the cities and villages, The State Highway Commission. bx given the authority to determine what Constitutes the “travelled portion” of the main highway. ——— Woman Disappears in Night Drew). ‘The police sent out a genera! alarm to-day for Mrs. Anna Jexaherlar thirty-eight, No. 235 Bast, 24th Gino’ Her hi said , * Ws i 4 1 * ‘ — im a - ‘ 4) i ‘ | we ee Si